Integrity, values and gyrostabilizer

Can't seem to get off this theme of integrity. There should be three non-negotiables: one's vision to create the best, one's mission, and one's values. All are deeply rooted in our history and culture, and are usually the most significant reasons for one's success. Everything else in life is strategic and tactical with regards to adapting to the things that change around each of us.

However, our core values remain true. As individuals we are guided by our underlying values that never change. These values are practical habits that guide our everyday behaviors and relationships with clients, customers, taxpayers, employees, students, constituents, and the communities in which we live.

Our values also form the foundation of how we develop our leaders. Those values lead to behaviors, which in turn lead to positive results. Our school administration should ingrain in our student athletes that honesty and integrity mean keeping agreements (school handbook) and never compromising principles for short-term benefit (district championships). Acknowledging reality and thinking independently mean making logical decisions, and this is a major part of our internal integrity meter. Consider how these values, and the leadership principles based on them, are responsible for the development of our young student athletes. The pertinent issues (student handbook) were fully disclosed, and our student athletes, students, etc. should be held fully accountable. This is the process of developing one's internal values and self worth. One should never 'muddy the water' with a double-standard based upon student athlete v. regular student. The one thing that is true is that they are all students first, and whatever else second.

Everything we do should be consistent with our values and the values we seek to convey. Perhaps Twi-lite Super and school administration should complete an inventory of their own personal values and internal integrity meter. One would hope that they would draw a more realistic approach to creating two separate sets of values depending upon student athlete v. regular student expectations. One could conclude that a student athlete should be held to a higher standard than a regular student. After all, the student athlete sought the privilege to participate in a more costly endeavor at the expense of taxpayers.

I may have finally gotten this issue off my chest, but every time I attend a round table discussion these double-standards are discussed. Why should a teacher have to resign over such double-standards? Twi-lite Super should be sent packing once again! Twi-lite Super's value gyro is out of kilter, and the only way to repair a damaged gyro is by discarding the damaged gyro. She retired once retire her again and let her work on that out of kilter value gyrostabilizer.