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To: LindyBill who wrote (130746)	8/8/2005 8:48:31 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

Which is why you see the burnout. They can't build up the school, educate the kids, and fight the union/school board/school bureaucracy, at the same time. They give up after a while. We agree on the burnout factor just disagree on what it represents. From what I've seen the energy it takes to come up with new curricula, to genuinely engage students on a host of levels (read the Times piece on Bloomberg's innovations to get a picture), to simply control more of their activities as teachers, gives them the push to get over the hump, to do the job well. That's what it takes to start great things. If you've ever been there, started something completely new that you thought would do great good and drew on your best skills, you know the feeling. It is the energy source. But to continue them into the next generation takes something different, ways to tackle the institutionalization problem. It's not fighting others; it's keeping the vision alive as the mundane takes over. It's very, very tough. Perhaps Bloomberg's thing will deal with some of that.