Monday, January 28, 2013
50 Years of Progress
Comments originally posted Friday, January 25, 2013
While watching grandson Adam at the Brouillet Elementary School MLK Day program, several thoughts grabbed my attention.
1. This was the first student assembly in years where I wasn’t working to insure appropriate student behavior. I got to just sit back and enjoy. I wanted to post pictures of the teachers working and the students presenting, but then I didn’t know who might get upset about showing up on FB.
2. In a mere 50 years since “I Have a Dream” we have come a long way in recognizing the person and his/her character are far more important than race or ethnicity. Not everything in the “good old days“ was good. Laws helped make that transition, but surely there were many other things at work as well. We are still in need of those intangibles that have gotten us this far.
While watching grandson Adam at the Brouillet Elementary School MLK Day program, several thoughts grabbed my attention.
1. This was the first student assembly in years where I wasn’t working to insure appropriate student behavior. I got to just sit back and enjoy. I wanted to post pictures of the teachers working and the students presenting, but then I didn’t know who might get upset about showing up on FB.
2. In a mere 50 years since “I Have a Dream” we have come a long way in recognizing the person and his/her character are far more important than race or ethnicity. Not everything in the “good old days“ was good. Laws helped make that transition, but surely there were many other things at work as well. We are still in need of those intangibles that have gotten us this far.
Labels: intangibles for good, Martin Luther King
# posted by bob's eye @ 10:38 PM 
