TWICE LAST WEEK, A MILLION TIMES TOTAL


The foursome in front of me is painfully slow. The foursome behind me can't wait to hit.

There are all kinds of ways to evaluate teachers. One method is to record by check mark what is happening in the classroom every 15 seconds. Teacher talking, student talking, students reading, teaching handling discipline problem, and a plethora of other possibilities including teacher looking out for students by lowering shades in the classroom.

If they had the same kinds of tests for the golfers in front of me last week, I would never have been checking swinging the golf club. No one was ever ready to hit. Not even a practice swing. No wonder they were so slow.

Even when we played one round in 3 hours forty-five minutes and the other in four and a half hours, there was still no reason for slow play like that. In addition, there were a few opportunities for them to allow us to play through, but it was as if that concept was as foreign to them as being ready to hit the ball.

So why am I complaining when I should be thankful that I'm healthy enough to be playing, the weather conditions are spectacular, I have no other commitments which might take me away from the golf course (such as teacher evaluation using such an instrument as I described and that I used to do). Well, because that's what I do. I'm working on it, but I'm not advancing much farther than the golfers ahead of me. Now if I could attack my patience problem like the players behind me, I'd be making some progress.