The new academic year is nearly five weeks old and the Journalism Club has yet to gear up. The Leadership Class is very enthusiastic about training club leaders in their responsibilities, so it is exciting to think that all the club presidents and other officers will get a solid message about how to manage a club. I just cannot seem to get my past officers to make a move. Email, in person conversations, nothing.
I have not even unpacked the Journalism files from the move from my old classroom. I thought it might give them a bit more buy-in if they organized our morgue, resources, and files. It may still happen, but those boxes are a daily reminder that nothing is happening in our Journalism world. I recall with great fondness and regret how the club used to hope to get our first issue out the first week of school, to welcome the student body back from summer with a new print edition. I didn't know then how great those kids were, since they never actually achieved that goal and I could only see what we did not do. Now I see that the fire in the belly is a resource of great value. We have none now, and that makes all the difference.
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