Okay Already...
Meetings, meetings, MEETINGS!! Why do education people think so many meetings are needed? My Master's is in Educational Administration and (here's that famous phrase) if I were in charge, the meetings agenda would be almost non-existent.
Year after year most of the people who were there the year before are there the next year. They're not going anywhere. They know the yearly meetings with their eyes closed. Why do they need to keep going to the same kinds of meeting every year. I can see having a meeting for changes in policy, procedure, new employees, accreditation and such; important things. But, to have the same boring meetings year after year is total stupidity.
Education institutions love to have their meetings (it doesn't matter whether they are public, private, or state run.) Each new year they begin to run around like chickens with their heads cut off screeching about something that needs to be done NOW when in fact, it's usually something they should have been working on for a long time (accreditation comes to mind) and most of what is considered to be so urgent (picture urgent, insistent voices propelling you on to yet another meeting and sounding for all their worth like a phone that won't stop ringing) isn't worth listening too. Most of it is someone else's worry or procrastination or something that has nothing to do with you.
Hmm, so someone is not sending me the emails that would cause me to have to attend any of the urgent, oh so urgent meetings. I however, don't feel sad about it and figure my life will progress along nicely without ever having stepped over the threshold into another boring meeting. How about you?
Meetings, meetings, MEETINGS!! Why do education people think so many meetings are needed? My Master's is in Educational Administration and (here's that famous phrase) if I were in charge, the meetings agenda would be almost non-existent.
Year after year most of the people who were there the year before are there the next year. They're not going anywhere. They know the yearly meetings with their eyes closed. Why do they need to keep going to the same kinds of meeting every year. I can see having a meeting for changes in policy, procedure, new employees, accreditation and such; important things. But, to have the same boring meetings year after year is total stupidity.
Education institutions love to have their meetings (it doesn't matter whether they are public, private, or state run.) Each new year they begin to run around like chickens with their heads cut off screeching about something that needs to be done NOW when in fact, it's usually something they should have been working on for a long time (accreditation comes to mind) and most of what is considered to be so urgent (picture urgent, insistent voices propelling you on to yet another meeting and sounding for all their worth like a phone that won't stop ringing) isn't worth listening too. Most of it is someone else's worry or procrastination or something that has nothing to do with you.
Hmm, so someone is not sending me the emails that would cause me to have to attend any of the urgent, oh so urgent meetings. I however, don't feel sad about it and figure my life will progress along nicely without ever having stepped over the threshold into another boring meeting. How about you?
posted by Mines Broken @ Monday, August 23, 2004
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