Visiting Charlotte
So I'm in Charlotte visiting my family and friends.
I was slightly disgusted when I realized that my parents were diagnosed with a bad case of republicanism. I truly knew it was incurable when I saw the appreciation support glossy 8 1/2 x 11 picture with John McCain and Sarah Palin’s signatures.
So sad.
I went out to dinner with some of my old class mates. That brought out some interesting thoughts...
Why does it feel like the people that I went to school with settled for mediocrity?
I’m the only person in my class of seven that is now a nationally certified interpreter. I know people work at a different pace and different level. But it seems as if no one else has even taken the step on to the professional ladder. Why?
If one is going to spend 3 years of their life in an intense program, graduate and then not take the exam that makes them a professional, or even work towards that, then what’s the point?
Not that I’m unhappy with my accomplishments, nor am I trying to toot my own horn. Maybe I was naïve in thinking that the people I graduated with wanted the same thing. I thought the goal was professionalism and getting to a national standard not the mediocrity of the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. I find it really depressing. I know not every one wants the same thing, but why settle?
I’m disappointed. I don’t know what I was hoping for, but maybe just a little professional vision. One reason why this bothers me is that the seven of us went through this whole program together, and we all said we had the end goal of becoming nationally certified, and no one else did.
Sigh.