Steve leaves again for Anchorage today. He will be back Wednesday night, just in time to see Andrew and me before we leave on Friday. During this Anchorage trip, he is going to a slew of finance meetings, trying to make right the wrongs the school incurred in previous years.
The last school board meeting was a tough one. The teachers and Steve held the line with patience and strength, against the sometimes harsh opinions of the board and the community members. The next morning, a school board member who understands education from her years of teaching, wrote Steve this letter…
Dear Steve,
Thank you for your passion. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for sharing yourself and your family with our school and community. Thank you for helping me see that wading through the conflict is part of growing, changing, improving and excelling. You’ve got a lot of patience and tolerance.
Sincerely,
Sally Dybdahl
While I was growing up, my father would often remind me of the saying, “You can’t judge another until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes.” All it would take would be a few steps in Steve’s shoes and I would either think call myself a glutton for punishment or a never tiring warrior…Just sitting in on the board meetings makes my stomach churn. I so appreciate his perserverance and his vision. I don’t know how he does it.
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