Open AccessA Suggestion for Restoring Public Support for Public Schools
Author(s) -
Flora N. Roebuck,
Gene Russell,
Mack Wedel
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of invitational theory and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1060-6041
DOI - 10.26522/jitp.v5i2.3860
Subject(s) - enthusiasm , apathy , malice , public education , work (physics) , quality (philosophy) , public relations , psychology , interpersonal communication , social psychology , sociology , political science , pedagogy , law , public administration , engineering , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , philosophy , cognition , epistemology
Former Secretary of Education David Matthews (1996) and others have noted that public education is in danger of losing public support which is critical to its quality and survival. Suggested causes for declining public enthusiasm range from apathy to financial shifts in the culture. This article proposes that the increasing disavowal of public schools results from experience with day-by-day disinviting behaviors. The suggested remedy is for educators to evaluate their on-the-job responses to their patrons. Wherever subminimal interpersonal conditions are identified, participants should learn how to invite people to education. With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation’s wounds. - Abraham Lincoln