Why would you fire up the chainsaw or swing a woodsplitter in Forney, Texas when the high temperature is 86 degrees? Why would you make yourself get up early to have to put on leather gloves in this heat? Well, you do work now so that you don’t have to do it in February--in the cold and, as last winter showed us, in the snow. You do a bit of work now so that you aren’t stuck doing it when you’re desperate. That’s why we fund public education.
Our teachers in FISD are always cutting firewood for the future. Whether it is planning lessons over the summer, or correcting students in the moment, or, lately, writing grants for us to fund here at the Forney Education Foundation--teachers know to plan a week, a season, a decade in advance. How else would the precocious fifth grader get to Harvard if our teachers weren’t thinking for the future? How else would our teachers be constantly innovating if they weren’t planning for the next version of the lesson that they’re teaching right now?
Our lower grade teachers understand that their work today is about their students succeeding for the rest of their lives. When a teacher reaches a student on an emotional, personal, educational level, they are planting a tree. That tree will take a lifetime to mature, but here in FISD, we’re confident that the seedlings we plant now will grow strong.
Here at the Foundation, we like to think of ourselves as the fertilizer. Won’t you come help our kids grow strong? Visit www.forneyisdfoundation.org/
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