TSA and the Typical School

I fly a lot. Which means that I am subject to TSA screening multiple times a week in multiple locations.  I’m law abiding and it is in my benefit to follow the rules.  Basically, I just want to do what is right and be left alone.  And most of the time this is exactly what happens.

However, about 10% of the time a TSA agent will tell me to do something that no other agent has had me do.  I will ask if this is a new procedure and invariably I will be chastised and told that what the agent is demanding is the way that it has always been, everywhere.  I will state that I am an experience flyer and that is not the case.  This immediately leads to suspicious looks, hostile glares and boarder line compliance.

Now consider your school.  Most of your students want to do what is right and be left alone.  They learn and follow the basic rules of school compliance.  Then they come in contact with the adult who demands a different wrinkle of student compliance.  There will be a student who will question the wrinkle. That student will be chastised and told that what the adult is demanding is the way that it has always been, everywhere.  If the student continues to make his/her case, now he/she is defiant and faces whole weight of campus discipline and punishment.

I’m is schools everyday and observe this very dynamic multiple times a month.  I’m not assigning blame.  I’m just pointing out that maybe we want to be less like TSA.

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Top Tweets From the Week of May 31, 2015

A number of you in the LYS Nation are now Twitter users.  If you haven’t done so yet, we want you to join us.  To let you see what you are missing, here are the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of May 31, 2015.

1. Congratulations to LYSer, Kari Eggleston! She is the new principal at Washington Elementary School!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

2. Congratulations to LYSer, Tom Giles! He is the new principal at Marcy Elementary School!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

3. “Kids today don’t know how easy they have it.  When I was young, I had to walk 9 feet through shag carpet to change the channel.” (By @DrRichAllen)

4. (Adopted Texas) Budget leaves 31% of school districts with less funding per pupil than what they had prior to the 2011 budget cuts even though money is available.  (By @DonnaHowardTx)

5. The biggest irony is that the people criticizing teachers the most, lack all the qualities needed to be a teacher. (By @NicholasFerroni)

6. 75% of teens have access to a Smartphone - how do we teach them to use them for learning? (By @DSteward89)

7. Superintendents all over Texas give dedicated leadership to our children. They should be heeded by legislators instead of ignored. (By @pastors4txkids)

8. “Many politicians make up for their lack of education with a keenly developed sense of moral bankruptcy.” (By @DrRichAllen)

9. We pray for the day when we care as much about putting a book in the hands of our citizens as we do a gun. (By @pastors4txkids)

10. Make plans to attend the FREE post-conference session on Friday afternoon. PowerWalks Observer Training with ‪@LYSNation is one you don't want to miss! (By @TASSP1)

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/Fundamental5 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: TASSP Summer Conference (Multiple Presentations); TEPSA Summer Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas ASCD Summer Conference; NAESP National Conference; Illinois ASCD Fall Conference (Multiple Presentations) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook