“Sy, I really don’t like this,” said too many kids yesterday on our first day of state testing.

“I know,” I replied. “I know. I am sorry.”

I am sorry.

It’s hard to spend nearly a year trying to convince kids that education is something we can do with them only to have it turned upside down when it clearly becomes–with these types of experiences, something that we do to them.

So, what am I going to do about it? Don’t know. But I either need to put up or shut up. I am getting tired of my own complaining. But it is a formidable foe I face. Lots a politics. Lots a money. Money. Lots.

No sword in hand today. The cave hides that which I cannot yet face. But someday I will. Today, I only wield a sorry as we enter day two. Sorry. Someday that will not suffice.

Happy Tuesday, all.

Do. Reflect. Do Better.