Tuesday, December 11, 2012
How Cool Is That?

Headline News: Jackie Lacey took the oath of office Monday as Los Angeles County's first female and first African-American district attorney since the office was created in 1850. Lacey, whose parents moved to L.A. to escape racism in the South in the 1950s, was grateful to break the glass ceiling that had covered the DA's Office for 162 years. "Today, the voters of this county allowed us to witness that it is possible for a girl from a working-class neighborhood like the Crenshaw District, who was educated in a public school like Dorsey High School, and worked her way up from the bottom can become the district attorney of the largest prosecutorial office in the nation," she said to cheers from the crowd. (In her own words) "How cool is that?" Lacey, who now lives in Granada Hills, graduated from UC Irvine and the USC Law Center. She joined the DA's Office in 1986, and worked her way up through the ranks. It is very conceivable that the students in your classroom, just like Jackie Lacey, Barak Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Martin Luther King, Caesar Chavez...and countless other "history makers", may one day be "history makers" themselves. Be very careful to treat each student with dignity, integrity and high expectations. The least likely may be the very child to soar to the top...they may "come into their own" after being in your classroom, sitting in your office or engaging in a conversation with you. Believe the best in every child you encounter...then...years later...when they are making headline news....you can exclaim in perfect glee,"How Cool Is That?"