I'll admit that this has been my most difficult week. The reason being is that I have now run head on into "office politics" and it has been a hard thing to swallow. Office politics are an interesting thing because you know what you believe in and what you want to change for the better, yet you have to play the game in order to remain in good standing. For me it is more that although I know my cause is great, I do not have the power to make the change. Yet, as I write this I wonder how so many great leaders like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks were able to make a change?
Another thing that has me doing a lot of soul searching is idealistic views. Is it so terrible to have these when in a classroom? Can you have an idealistic view of a student on his/her learning or a lesson plan or classroom management and still make it work? I strongly feel that you can and that it is these idealistic views were never believed in, then we would be living without any change. Is that what we really want for our students?
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