Eating the Elephant

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher about problems in education today. He asks her how does one eat an elephant. Then he chuckles and says one bite at a time but the lady is not amused. She tells him when she taught teachers ate no elephants and children learned to read and write, add and subtract. Then she tells him children knew teachers were serious and parents stood behind them. They knew school was hard work not a day at the zoo. Donal Mahoney