Friesen: The value of being valued

Our school system and structure needs to stop trying to “teach” our students and instead, lead them. I learned this the hard way, as a young high school band director, that students can be lead with a string, but cannot be pushed with a bulldozer! As frustrating as it may be, we have to accept the fact that today more than ever, our students, parents, and community cannot just be told what they must do. They will invariably refuse. Leaders can only lead when those being led understand how much they are valued. This was true then. It is even more true now.

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