As the education community faces continual challenges with state funding, new evaluation processes, cuts to transportation and so on, we here at the Kishwaukee Education Consortium would rather focus on what we CAN control rather than things we cannot control.

We have been taking a look at student expectations. As all teachers and administrators enter adulthood, it is easy to be nostalgic of how great things were when we were teenagers. More often than not, we hear adults say, “Wow, kids today with the drugs, promiscuity, cell phones and video games. …When I was in high school, we weren’t this bad.”

Fortunately, adults who express that opinion are misinformed.