The confidence, too. Parents worry that their children are no longer learning as they should. Test results do nothing to allay those parents fears. Administrators are preoccupied with the problems of budget reduction. Teachers and professors start to fear for their jobs.
People are on edge, and yet demoralized, too.
To students and their parents it almost seems as if the grown-ups in education, the ones who are supposed to inspire and to set the best example, are paying less attention to their responsibilities than to their own survival. And then the administrators and teaching staff wonder why the students somehow don t seem as keen as they used to. Lou Holtz, a revered American football coach, understood. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It s my job not to de motivate them.