Backup Plans

When I’m working at home, I often have The Highway on, playing good contemporary country music to keep me company.  Bailey Zimmerman and Luke Combs recently released a song that has become one of my summer favorites, and if you listen to the lyrics carefully, it could be an anthem for our East Union students and teachers:

"If you got a fire, don't lose it

If you got a do-or-die dream do it

If you got somethin’ to prove go on and prove it

Don’t let nobody clip your (EAGLE) wings

Keep your head down, keep on the blinders

Tune out the doubters and all the closed minders

If it’s in your blood fallin’ down ain’t enough

To change who you were born to be

Getting back up, that’s the only backup plan you need!”

As East Union staff members return to school for another new year, PLANNING is at the forefront of nearly everything we do. It takes time, training, and resources to plan for a productive school year for our Little Eagles. It is hard work, but also a labor of love.

We know that we play a huge role in making the hopes, ambitions, and “do-or-die dreams” of our students realities, and to do so, we must always have “backup plans.”  All children come to us with different experiences, knowledge, and learning styles, and we must be prepared to celebrate and move forward when they succeed, but also to help them “get back up” when learning gets tough. None of this is easy, but our East Union staff members do it all so well.  

East Union is a special place, filled with people who love our Little Eagles. As we begin another new year, please join me in support of our educators. In the end, “that’s the only backup plan (we) need!”  

Mrs. Joan Gordon, East Union Elementary Principal