Years ago when I used to go out with my friend Bernardine for iced cream at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, we would walk by a sign that said "Nobody is a Nobody Here." What a wonderful sign! All my life I have heard one person or another berated for one reason or another and here that would not be tolerated. We were all SOMEBODY! I hope that my students feel that they are treated as they are somebody. I hope they know any other treatment would not be tolerated. But that does mean that we all have to live by the same rules. We have to work together with respect and compassion. Will you help me do that?

You Are Somebody!!

My mother taught me a poem years ago. It goes like this:

Could Be

I'd like to be a could be;

If I couldn't be an are.

For a could be is a maybe;

With a chance of reaching par.

I'd rather be a has been;

than a might have been by far.

For a might have been has never been;

And a has been's been an are.

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