Some days we caught in the bureaucratic malaise and forget that rules need to be bent or even broken for the sake of people particularly children and others who are unable to defend themselves. People are not numbers and need to be treated differently than that. We lose ourselves in catch phrases like I hear what you are saying. Did you hear what I did not say? Or, we need to be proactive here. Do we see the decline in our organizations because proactive not the same as shake up the established order. With courage, we can intervene.
Should all the world be monkey-do
And turn a royal purple hue,
Don’t let the voting colour you,
If you have heart of green;
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Head and shoulders through your shroud,
Now rise above the madding crowd,
Dare to live, and live out loud,
With courage, intervene.
Teacher as Transformer 
How true that we need to hear what’s not said as well! ♥
Yep, I wish I was more skilled at hearing what’s not being said. I always seem to get that wrong. 🙂
We all do Elizabeth. It is the challenge of being human I find.
There is a pressure I expect to conform to a system, but children and teachers are human beings rather than unthinking robots. If the education system is reduced to treating everyone the same according to the exact same rules then it becomes worthless, benefitting no one.
I agree Alex. That is where we are at now with education.