Didactic Cafe

A Tale of Two Fridays


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One Friday at a public high school, a huge fight breaks out.  The next Friday, a concert breaks out when there is a lightning delay of a football game.

One was covered in the media and shared relentlessly on social media.  The other was the concert.  And outside of parents and educators and students that were there, very little was shared.  

A tale of two Fridays is that we as a society seem to prefer sharing the bad to the good.  And that every day in  America's public schools is a tale of two worlds- probably more.  Educators are trying to reach kids who have everything, kids who have nothing, kids with good parental influence, kids with none, kids with goals and kids whose goal is simply survival.  

Which story are you going to share?

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Didactic CafeBy Chad Lehrmann