[LM_NET] Slap in the face . . .

[Kate Brown <kbrown@BREVISCONSULT.COM>]

In my last position, I was the Library Director at a private secondary
school.  Though not ranked in the "top tier" of private schools academically
by national ranking organizations, many of the administrators and faculty
members acted as if the school was at least in the "top tier," if not
higher.  

 

Over the course of my run at the school, not one but two faculty members
approached me, face-to-face, on separate occasions, with almost the same
question (which always made me wonder how many others there were with the
same question who did not have the gumption to ask).  

 

The first said, "Now I am assuming that you had to finish high school to
qualify for this position, correct?"  The second asked if I had to go to
college, a 4-year college, to be a librarian.  

 

I cannot count how many times while I was at the school that I was obliged
to tack "I am a member of the faculty" onto introductions to parents and/or
to other professionals visiting the campus. 

 

If one more teacher began a planning session with, "Have you ever written a
lesson plan before?  Do you know what a lesson plan is?" I had decided I
would stand up, gather my things, and after pleasantly leaving the room,
send each person on the planning team an A++ lesson plan entitled "Lesson
Plans: Their Use and Misuse."

 

Kate Brown, M.Ed., M.S.

kbrown@brevisconsult.com

Mattapoisett, MA

 


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