Election season is once again upon us.  For educators that means several things ranging from bond and tax rate elections to new city council members and Mayors, not to mention an unending string of irritating television ads.  It also means another legislative session is around the corner.  Back in my school PR days few things worried us as much as the bi-annual legislative session. Our trusty State Legislature holds in its hands the fate of our accountability system, our funding, our healthcare, our calendar, our school buses, our snack foods (or lack thereof)
. . . you get the picture.

From their offices in Austin a group of people, most of whom have never worked in education, decide our future for the next two years, and most of that future was unfunded and requires a lot of paperwork.

We saw them as the enemy.

And yet, the longer I worked in education the more I began to see a different kind of enemy.  One far more dangerous and far more prevalent than our friends in Austin. 

The enemy was us.