Health & Fitness
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
School system embarks on the closure of another school year and dedicates itself to finding a new captain to steer our ship.
Change.
It's a buzzword that usually is tossed about. Change is good. Change is inevitable. Nothing remains without change. Change means motion, movement. It means that the wheels are turning and that we are moving somewhere.
Here is a catalog of the changes we've seen in just the last four years in Monroe:
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Superintendent change three years ago
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Loss of 30 teaching positions
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Closure of Chalk Hill (half closed this year, fully closed next)
School schedule changes (St. Jude and Monroe Elementary)
Bus schedule changes
Changes to library services
Loss of PreFirst program/addition of KinderAcademy
Change of service provider for LEAP programs at elementary schools
Loss of teacher daycare/childcare program
Loss of grade 5/6 foreign language
Loss of dedicated health instruction in grades 5/6
Loss of DARE program in grade 5
Loss of summer Arts and Imagination program
Loss of dedicated facilities management for school system
Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent change this summer
That's a whole lot of changes in a short period of time. And while I don't disagree that some of the changes going on in our system are inevitable or even necessary, it seems like an awful lot of upheaval where we would like to maintain some stability and structure.
As our school system embarks on the closure of another school year and dedicates itself to finding a new captain to steer our ship, I think we all need to think carefully about the direction that we are headed in. What do we as a community want our school system to look like, to strive toward, to be? Will we be ever trying to plug the holes or will we be charting a course for a new horizon? One hopes that the opportunity brought about by the upcoming change in leadership will allow us to move forward on calmer, more stable seas.
