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BY EILEEN BRADY THE NEWS JOURNAL OF WILMINGTON, OHIO Just as good books keep you up all night and good movies keep you from checking your watch, good teachers keep you from wishing that the bell would ring and deliver you to your next class.
All three entertain as well as inform. “But teachers shouldn’t have to entertain,” I’ve been told, often by boring teachers. I disagree with them. If you don’t relish standing before a roomful of teenagers, holding their attention, what are you doing in a profession that essentially requires an audience? Often, adults mistakenly believe that kids equate easy teachers with good teachers. That doesn’t give most students enough credit. We’ve all had teachers who didn’t require much of us, whose tests were easy regurgitation of notes taken the previous day. But we knew we were getting slighted. I’ve worked with teenagers enough to know that although they sometimes listen politely, they may only actually hear one thing you tell them.
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BY EILEEN BRADY THE NEWS JOURNAL OF WILMINGTON, OHIO I stood in downtown Lebanon with 39,999 other people early in December and thought, “What does Lebanon have that Wilmington doesn’t have?” I mean, we have a quaint and picturesque downtown, with its beautiful architecture, active business community and government offices that haven’t relocated to a strip mall.
A few of the best restaurants in town even eke out business in the midst of a chain nation. So why were thousands of people gathering in downtown Lebanon instead of downtown Wilmington? Why were people shelling out money all over Warren County? A parade. A holiday parade. Everyone loves a parade. But not just any parade, I’ve come to believe. A parade with a twist. A parade with specificity. A parade like Lebanon’s annual horse-and-carriage parade, which drew an estimated 80,000 people (40,000 in the afternoon, and 40,000 in the evening) and brought participants from hundreds of miles away. |
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