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Re: Want to play in HS band? Pass a drug test

Author: Ed Granger
Date: 2007-08-04 22:00

When it comes to school policy, I do make the rules. I vote for my local school board members. They work for me, not the other way around. It's a democracy. We make the rules together. We don't have to passively accept them. The idea that those of us who believe our ideals are ultimately what make us who we are as a people -- and that we have an obligation to at least point toward them, and perhaps even to work toward them, one painful step at a time -- are somehow out of touch is frankly condescending. I have had to hold those I supervise accountable and to terminate their employment on occasion. But I also know that rules made to address the least common denominator of performance or behavior tend to work poorly, and often inhibit the fullest efforts of the well-intentioned. The statement that companies have rules and requirements in place of ideals is also woefully off course - companies with an engaged workforce also have a mission and vision that provide a positive motivation, rather than relying solely or even primarily on negative reinforcement. You keep talking about "managing," but seem to have no awareness of the critical distinction between "management" and "leadership." People conform to rules, but they follow leaders. I'd rather be a leader.
Laws are supposed to be our collective way of solving shared problems - not managing those who don't wish to be "managed." This isn't the Soviet Union. The best laws embody our ideals, not stand in their stead.
As for simply accepting bad laws until power is handed over or attained through sanctioned means, I would suggest you do some reading about a little moment in history called the Civil Rights Movement.

Ed

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