Public Schools and Icebergs
Take a walk through Clinton City Schools and this is what you will see. Teachers smiling, greeting students at the door. Students smiling and laughing in the classrooms. Laughter fills the cafeteria. Giggles and screams are heard on the playground. Mid-year benchmark data shows that students are making incredible gains. From the outside, it seems to be flowing flawlessly with little effort. Icebergs. They are beautiful structures - a large piece of ice, floating effortlessly and beautifully in the ocean water. People pay large amounts of money to hop on a cruise ship to absorb their beauty on Alaskan cruises. Viewers can only see one-fourth of the iceberg. Three-fourths of the structure remains hidden under the dark ocean water, not visible to the observer's eye. However, this foundation is a key component to the beauty of the visible piece of ice - providing the mechanism for it to float effortlessly. Public schools across the state of TN began the work in early May of intensely p...