I’m Swearing Off Conventions/Seminars This Year
My experience of late is that newspaper conventions/seminars are too much like school. Too much like school in a bad way.
1. Public Schools are required to teach to the dumbest kid in the class. There has been no “gifted and talented” sessions for those of us who are trying to move forward with the print and online newspapers.
OR
2. Private schools where they teach to the big donor’s kid, and I’m on a hardship tuition grant because I meet a quota or something. So the teacher spends extra time with the rich kid who has all the latest toys and techniques and tutors. Meanwhile some of us are just trying to keep up by finding an inexpensive technique or by working smarter.
I’ve decided to home school this year.
February 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Mark,
You missed a terrific Kentucky Press Association meeting. There was a record attendance for the awards dinner. Scores of young — and not-so-young — reporters and editors were there to pick up their awards.
It would have been better if top executives at Kentucky’s daily newspapers had been there in greater number to encourage these staffers further.
Home schooling is overly self indulgent.