As part of my internship, I headed up a committee on setting up the requirements for Career and Technology Education students.
The biggest lesson I learned is that although something might seem to be a simple matter to me, nothing is ever really simple. And what I might see as a cut and dry issue, others may have strong feelings about.
Several teachers had opinions about requirements for Letterman jackets, but few wanted to be on the committee. The three teachers who agreed to be on the committee were also in agreement that the student should be required to have a certain amount of time combined with attending a state conference.
We had different opinions on how the jackets should be funded. We talked about having a department-wide fundraiser, but I suggested that the funding issue could wait until another time since the committee's goal was to establish requirements. We did however agree that students who wanted jackets this year could get them but would have to pay for them themselves.
However when I wrote up our decisions and sent them to the committee members to make sure I hadn't missed anything, one member had changed her mind and had thought I decided that she didn't think it would be a good thing because not all students participating and the fundraiser would get jackets. I pointed out that for now I was only making a recommendation and that the student should at the required to participate.
I sent our recommendations to our director and then met with her to go over them. She also was hesitant about fundraising, but we agreed that the decision for funding could be decided at a later date, and that the purpose of the committee, to establish the requirements for Letterman jackets, had been fulfilled.
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