September – the smell of a freshly waxed floor in your school. This is something that teachers and school administrators are only too familiar with. Along with the clean school, the textbooks piled up on the student desks and the neatly stacked library books always comes some anxiety. When I was a teacher I remember the first-day-of-school nightmares. In my dream was I was not able to control my class. The students were running out the classroom door and I was not able to shout at them to “Come back to the room.” When I became a principal I still had dreams before the opening of school. These were different. I couldn’t get the teachers to supervise their kids. I don’t have those dreams any more but I’m still concerned about supervision of children and keeping them from harm. Read more…
