C.F.

Spanier Award

This award is not about

            The highest test scores

            The most well-behaved classroom

            Or, smartest class-most honor roll students

This award is about

            Seeing potential where there seems to be none

            Reaching out to all the children—those affluent and in poverty

                        The intellectuals and the mentally challenged

                        The well-behaved and the “bad to the bone”

                        The underprivileged and “the well to do”

                        The outcast and the well-placed

            It’s about loving and caring

            About giving and sharing

            About helping and holding

            About developing and nurturing

            About holding a hand and hugging a child

            About seeing possibility and potential

            About pointing students toward the stars and milkyway

            About discovering talents and promoting them.