Dear Hannah: Mission Statement Part 9 - #AnnualReport (Episode 1 - Part 4 (#ThisIsUs))

Reach - Then Teach

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Let me spit some truth serum. "This Masquerade" may never be dismantled. It may be too hard to see it ... to even begin to disrupt it. Why is it so hard to see? Well, *every* school stakeholder group (teachers, administrators, board members, students, parents, and community) has "blind spots" generated by strange, twisted combinations of self-interest, self-promotion, humility, ignorance, arrogance, ambition, hubris, delusion, dishonesty, omniscience, sarcasm, boondoggle, rigamarole, dogmatism, narcissism, classism, elitism, idealism, racism, ageism, chauvinism, feminism ... and several flavors of "buddy complexes" and "savior complexes" ...