President's Message
Spring 2008

It has a been a privilege to have served as president of FLAAPT for the last two years. I was honored to have been asked to serve, and the experience has been enjoyable. When I accepted the nomination and was elected, I wrote a number of goals for myself regarding our organization. As past-president I intend to keep working to achieve those goals.

Our profession faces many challenges. In terms of funding, public school education does not seem to be a priority in our state, nor does higher education. At our Fall meeting two years ago, I presented statistics about science education in Florida. It was an eye-opening and gloomy presentation. Little has changed since then.

There is nothing more important that our country does than providing an education for our people. Science education, and physics education in particular, are key to the economic, intellectual and social future of our country. I hope we can all work to make physics education as good as it can possibly be.

We have many talented and dedicated physics teachers in FLAAPT. I always look forward to interacting with all of you at meetings. My membership has been extremely beneficial to my career. I look forward to the upcoming meeting, and many future meetings.

See you in Avon Park April 4 th and 5 th .

Frank Lock
Lemon Bay H.S.
2201 Placida Rd.
Englewood, FL 34224
Phone: 941-475-1578
e-mail: fasterlock@ewol.com

 

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