"Expecting Greatness"

The Telegraph in Macon, Georgia on Sunday, September 3rd had an excellent story with the above title. The story was written by Julie Hubbard and informed us that "Hard work, innovations helping set Bleckley County schools apart."

Then on Monday, September 4th The Telegraph once again captured my attention with an associated press story with the headline on page 4A, "Augusta magnet school has state's highest SAT average."

I get the impression that education systems all around Bibb County, Georgia are making progress. Yes, I am aware that the Gates Foundation is currently working with the leadership of Southwest High School Magnet School and that the implementation of the new program is sometime in the future.

This is great news and I appreciate any good news regarding education in Georgia. What I need and I am confident that many of my Bibb County Peers need is more good news regarding education in Bibb County.

I look forward to the day when all of us, each citizen in Bibb County can communicate with the elected members of the Bibb County Board of Education with every innovative communications system available to the majority of us citizens. We all know about letters and telephones and for the past few years a good many citizens also use E-Mail. What an efficient and cost effective means of communications. I long for the day when we use every means available to communicate.

I also appreciate the need to educate our future Bibb County Citizens with the most effective means available. I do not anticipate that our Board of Education will jump on each and every fad that comes down the pike, but I do know for a fact that any school which has a focus on the whole student such as the Augusta Magnet School has demonstrated with clear cut results should be emulated throughout the entire State of Georgia.

The most dynamic sentence in the Associated Press article concerning the Magnet School in Augusta, Georgia is from a student: "Everyone is working to better themselves." This was a statement from a sixteen year old student.

When any student can buy into why they need an education we will have eliminated half of the problem which our educators face on a daily basis.

We all know that when we realize a need in our daily lives that the majority of our citizens will work to achieve that need - even students!!!

The sixteen year old in Augusta, Georgia said it so well that there is no need for additional words in this Blog. I am appreciative and grateful for this comment:

"Everyone is working to better themselves"