Clark Galloway, developer of the Galloway Landings air strip in Leighton Township and CEO of EduStaff substitute teaching provider, responded this morning to Townbroadcast’s column Tuesday about Professional Services Group.
“I am the president of the competing business, EDUStaff,” he wrote in an e-mail. “EDUStaff was formed in 2010 to compete against PESG. Our organization is very strong, well respected, and now has a national footprint. EDUStaff has no debt, no creditors, and has NEVER lost any of our 500 strong district clients since our inception. This is credited in part to a strong community of employees that have ‘servanthood’ as their core value in serving our school districts.
“While our competitor simply left 65 school districts and 4,000 employees in the dark on Monday, in just the past 36 hours, EDUStaff has already formed a relationship with 50 of these 65 school districts to make sure these employees can get paid and have continuity in their roll as a needed substitute teacher.”
Townbroadcast was unable to reach Galloway Tuesday while preparing the column.
An interesting choice of word “servanthood” to describe the core value of the substitutes available through EDUStaff. Maybe I’m picking nits, but that smacks a bit of religious bias in providing educators to public schools. Am I off base, or paranoid?
The choice of becoming a teacher is serving others in helping educate them to become productive members of society. Why you find “servanthood” puzzling speaks volumes in how you and others view the educational system in this country.
Maybe young people choosing a college curriculum should understand what teaching really is – serving others. If you aren’t willing to humble yourself to serving others, maybe another curriculum should be persued.
You misunderstand my comment. Servanthood is a word closely associated with Christian doctrine. I used it myself during my entire adult experience being active in my church. When I studied and trained to be a teacher I considered it a career inclination, a noble area of giving knowledge to future generations of kids. I never viewed it with religious undertones.
Being committed to teaching does, indeed, serve children, but in public schools it should be viewed as a secular “calling,” and not a religious one.
My concern is with the use of a word so closely associated with clear religious bias when used in context with public school systems which should be clearly free of religion.
When I went to school in the 50’s and 60’s, religion was talked about but no religion was taught nor endorsed. It was outside of the school realm. But neither was it denigrated by the teachers nor administration. Remember, the country does not allow the establishment of one religion but allows the free practice of all.
I believe most people are discouraged by the influence by teachers exerting their beliefs or non-belief or political leanings upon students who are influenced by adult teacher role models. They are public servants to teach, not proselytize or push their personal viewpoints.
I disagree. Anyone helping/teaching others is a servant to others. Evidently you put a religious bent on servanthood and don’t like being humbled to serve others, thus your choice to forgo teaching, that you didn’t feel the call to teach. It’s not for everyone.
You are not off base or paranoid. I also thought it was an interesting choice of word to use in explaining his company’s service. Mr. Galloway is a Cornerstone University grad where servanthood is taught in the school’s curriculum. It’s also a good word to use when you are marketing your company’s services to parochial school systems.
It’s surprising ISDs haven’t done what Mr Galloway has done and set up their own substitute clearing house without a profit set aside for ownership.
This is an old site, but I have to add: Edustaff is patting itself on the back for “stepping in” and saving school districts left in the PESG migration. Sure – they stepped in. They stepped in at great profit to themselves, acquiring subs and districts already in progress. How self-aggrandizing can you get? Now if they were coordinating this new acquisition for nothing, then they could legitimately take pleasure in their philanthropy.