I found myself in an all too familiar setting this morning: a school assembly.

Not an assembly of students but of teachers -complete with 70s cover band and all.

My church pastor was the keynote speaker at the assembly and he asked me to help out with the multimedia part of his presentation. Keen observer that I am, I noticed that a lot of the behavior that is considered perfectly acceptable for adults is not for students.

For example, there was plenty of milling about, constant chatting, and countless thumbs getting their texting, emailing, or even iBlogging exercise. If this had been a student assembly, the "hush"-ers, "find your seat"-ers, and "turn off your phone"-ers would have been out in full force.

I don't mean to suggest that the teachers behaved badly, they didn't. It was a perfectly ordinary, run-of-the-mill assembly - except for the noticeably absent talking, sitting, and cell phone police.

All of this got me wondering, "Are adults only 'adults' when kids are around?"

We don't expect kids to behave like adults, we expect kids to behave like adults behave when kids are around.

...just an observation.

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