From the Circle - Week One Part Two

By Tom Wilschutz, Head of School

Perspective 

I was listening to NPR this morning and found myself thinking about just how lucky I am; how lucky we, the Solebury community, are at this moment. 

An odd thought at first blush, I agree. 但有两个故事让我体会到了这种感觉,并提醒我,视角是一个有价值的旅行伴侣. 

I spend most of my day worried. 我担心你,我的学生和我的家人. I worry about our faculty and staff. 我担心我的学校、我的家庭、我们的国家和世界的财务状况. I go to sleep worried, and I wake up worried. (To be clear, that’s not a wholly different thing for me, or for most Heads of School, 在没有全球大流行的时候. 我认为,对于任何一位校长来说,职位描述的第一条就是:“你的工作就是操心一切。.’)

我没有花时间去担心的是我学生的食品安全, at least the great majority of them. NPR的报道包括对费城一所学校校长的采访. 记者问他有多担心他的学生缺少教育. (背景:费城的公立学校刚刚宣布希望在4月中旬开始远程教育.校长的回答充分表明,在我们都试图领导各自的机构之际,我们各自的担忧是多么不同. The essence of his response: I don’t have the luxury of worrying about students missing math or English; seventy percent of my students will go hungry if we can’t get them the food they rely on here at school. 

Perspective.

接下来的故事是对纽约市一位急诊室医生的采访. 采访快结束时,记者问他有多担心. His response was enlightening. The ER doctor said we will get through this. In the end, we will get through this. He then said, 我最担心的是发展中国家的人们,他们无法获得医疗保健和训练有素的急诊室医生,以及像通用汽车这样的工厂,他们可以随时转向,开始生产呼吸机和口罩. 那些国家的人民将会怎样?

As I stood in the circle this morning, 与我们的学生交谈,从第一天起就听到他们积极的经验报告,  我发现自己在思考费城校长和发展中国家人民的经历. 我发现自己非常幸运,非常幸运. 

I found myself thinking about perspective.