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104 DIALOGUE: A JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT spiritually mature people who would really love the children —as children, not as potential missionaries. 4. The best music person in the ward would be the Primary chorister. It is my firm opinion that the chorister is a much more significant person than the presidency in terms of impact on the children. Ironically, over the past eight years, our three best choristers were all "promoted" to Primary president, again, a clear imposition of hierarchical values upon the organization rather than a concern with the needs of the children. However, Paul is the current chorister; and since men are prohibited from serving in the Primary presidency, we may be safe for a few months. 5. Obviously, teachers would be trained in and encouraged to adapt the manuals. Discussions, role-play, activity, and other, more engaging, forms of teaching than lecturing would be stressed. 6. Parents would no longer be allowed to indulge their horrifying level of indifference about the quality of teaching in their children's classroom. A rotating schedule of visits or other involving activities might be one solution. 7. The nursery would instantly stop being a free child care facility, to be replaced by a co-op arrangement that would get parents of both genders involved and keep them involved in Primary for the next nine years. 8. The counselor in the bishopric should, in my opinion, be the standby substitute teacher whenever a teacher doesn't show up. I think this would create new motivation to find reliable, competent teachers. Similarly, if a classroom is inadequate, that class should meet in the bishop's office until a satisfactory solution is discovered. 9. The sacrament meeting program should be abolished in favor of having one class each month sing and give short talks in sacrament meeting. 10. And finally, Primary should involve more men. My ultimate hope for the Church is to see the dissolution of the rigid, wrongful, limiting hierarchy that creates as many problems as it solves. However, realistically, hierarchy is quite clearly a function of the current system. So let's use it! I think that the status of Primary and attention it receives will improve in direct proportion to the number of men involved in it. More men should be called as teachers, as officers, as nursery leaders, and, ideally, to the presidency. The first class that I taught as Sunbeams will graduate within the next year. What I wanted to teach them, and all my Sunbeams, more than anything else was that Primary was a good place to be, a place where they were loved. I hope they felt that as three-year-olds. I don't know if they did, or if they still do. But those years made a big difference
Anderson: J e s u s W a n t s M e for ... 1 0 5 to me. In a culture that is simultaneously sentimental about children and dismissive of them, I hope to sense the dimensions of Jesus' unsparing challenge, "Except ye be converted and become as little children. . . . " BIBLIOGRAPHY Ballard, M. Russell. "Teach the Children," Ensign, May 1991, 78-80.
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