Latest / DA CREW Podcast / JULY 31ST BONUS SHOW HOSTED BY LATONYA MICHELLE LITTLEJOHN
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- 3:14miss every Welcome, Welcome, good evening, everybody. Um, welcome to
- 4:08another episode of Delay, but not TONI the podcast. This is show number
- 4:13nine for me. Um, Tonight, I have a special guest with me,
- 4:19my brother in law, doctor Carlos, your man little John. UM.
- 4:26Before I start, you know, I like to give honor to God,
- 4:29and so I'm gonna read a scripture and I'm coming from Luke eighteen.
- 4:32Now a certain ruler asks him, saying, good teacher, what shall I
- 4:38do to inherit inherit eternal life? So Jesus said to him, why do
- 4:43you call me good? No one is good but one, and that is
- 4:46God. And so with that being said, I would like to introduce to
- 4:53you all mister Carlos, Little John. Hey Carlos, how are you.
- 5:00I'm doing well? How are you? Um? Great? UM? I
- 5:02want to give you a chance to introduce yourself because I feel like nobody knows
- 5:08you better than you know yourself. So if you would please introduce yourself for
- 5:13me. Sure, Before I introduce myself, I want to congratulate you on
- 5:17your form, your platform. I didn't realize that you have been doing this
- 5:20for quite some time. I'm not on social media, so I wouldn't know,
- 5:27but needless to say, congratulations on your platform. Thank you, and
- 5:30thank you for extending the invitation absolutely. My name is Carlos little John.
- 5:35I'm forty four years old, married with three children in World four, including
- 5:41my grandson to missus Felicia little John, the Queen, the Boss, the
- 5:50principal of Lawrence Elementary School in Lawrence County School Distro. Fifty five. This
- 5:56is my thirty year as principal at Lawrence Elementary and this is my twenty third
- 6:00year overall in education. Okay, what made you decide that you wanted to
- 6:11choose education as a path for your career. Well, I mean, initially,
- 6:16I didn't intend to major in education. I didn't intend to go into
- 6:20the field of education. Initially I was going to I wanted to become a
- 6:27doctor. To be candid with you. I just didn't know what type of
- 6:30doctor. And so I went to school initially as a biology major, and
- 6:38once I saw all those science and math classes that I had to take,
- 6:42I'm not a big science and math person, but I'm an English and history
- 6:46person, right, So I changed my major very quickly to what I thought
- 6:50I was gonna. I thought I was gonna go into business, the business
- 6:54field, and I was a business major for three years. But the entire
- 7:00time that I was majoring that I majored in business, I was always working
- 7:04with children, whether I was a counselor at Upward Bound because I'm an upward
- 7:10bound product. I was a counselor at Upward Bound for man like three years.
- 7:15Then my part time job when I was at Winthrop in rock Hill,
- 7:19I worked at the YMCA, and so I was working at the YMCA at
- 7:25the front desk, but also spent the afternoon in the childcare area, and
- 7:30so I was always working with children. Then I also participated in the Big
- 7:35Brothers Big Sisters mentoring program. I coached basketball at the same time, So
- 7:42when I was at Winthrop, I was always around children. Whether I was,
- 7:45like I said before, working with at Upward Bound or working at the
- 7:51YMCA and the childcare department mentoring. So I ended up eventually, the more
- 7:59I was around children, the more or I saw the thing you know it
- 8:00was. I enjoyed working with kids. So I changed my major my junior
- 8:05year at Winthrop to elementary education. So and luckily I was able to stay
- 8:09on track and graduate UM on time. I graduate. I graduated four and
- 8:13a half years UM. And the only reason it took me that, the
- 8:18only reason it took me that extra semester is because I had to do my
- 8:20full time internship UM in an elementary school. So, Okay, I know
- 8:26that you started out as a teacher, UM, how long were you teaching
- 8:33and what was that like for you? Sure M, I taught for seven
- 8:37years. Let me just let me tell you the whole story. So,
- 8:41office I taught for seven years. I spent eight years as an assistant principal,
- 8:45and this is my eighth year as principal. UM. When I taught,
- 8:48I taught fourth grade for five years and fifth grade for two and I
- 8:54enjoyed teaching. It was I don't I don't want to sound like Ericant so
- 9:03to speak, but teaching was easy because it's stuff that already knew. It's
- 9:09just a matter of disseminating information to children in a manner that they can understand.
- 9:13Right, I'm naturally well, you know, I'm naturally silly. So
- 9:16it wasn't that hard to teach because I would entertain the children pretty much all
- 9:22day long by making them laugh, and during that time they were able to
- 9:24retain what I taught based on high representative Okay, So, being that you're
- 9:31silly and I consider you our family clown, how do you know how to
- 9:39turn it on and turn it off when it comes to the students, Oh,
- 9:43I have to. It's about relationships, and so forming and sustaining those
- 9:50relationships kind of helped me along the way because even now I cut up with
- 9:54my students, but at the same point in time, they know when they
- 9:58have to come to doctor Lj's office. It's only so they have a healthy
- 10:01respect for me, but they also have a healthy fear of me as well.
- 10:05But to answer your question, just establishing and maintain those relationships not only
- 10:09with them, with their parents as well. So so cur your mom,
- 10:16she said that you were a class clown at some point in your life,
- 10:22Being that you may have been a class clown. How do you handle the
- 10:26class clown that you have to interact with now that you're a principal, And
- 10:33just to provide some clarification, I was not always the class clown. I
- 10:37had several instances in which yeah, Lynda little John had to come to the
- 10:43school. But even now, when I deal with the quote unquote class clowns,
- 10:48I might I see myself in them, and so I don't just chastise
- 10:54them, so to speak. I kind of meet them where they are in
- 10:58terms of just get on their level and just kind of understand where they're coming
- 11:03from and again establishing relationship with them. So my students they know when I'm
- 11:09serious. But at the same point in time, we have a good relationship
- 11:13because when I cut up, they know that I cut up to the point
- 11:16of where they laugh so hard they start crying. So but because I believe
- 11:20me, I cut up, Yes you do. You know they have a
- 11:24healthy fear and healthy respect for me. Okay, so correct me if I'm
- 11:28wrong. But you were also a professor at Lander, Yes, I taught
- 11:33Atlanta for two years. I was given the opportunity to work with the Call
- 11:39Me Mister program, and I, along with Gavin Buffet who's still at Lander.
- 11:43We co taught education courses through the Call Me Mister program for two years.
- 11:50Okay, so what's the difference for you, the difference between being a
- 11:54professor and you're a regular four fifth grade teacher. UM, to be honest
- 12:01with you, the kids Atlanta that I taught, they were there because they
- 12:07wanted to be there, whereas you know, of course when elementary schools,
- 12:09elementary school kids don't want to be there. But you have to make it
- 12:13fun and you have to make it enjoyable for them to want to be there.
- 12:16So UM, and I cut up with my kids Atlanta too. I
- 12:20had them cracking up every class period and so UM it to me, to
- 12:26be honest with you, they was just bigger. They were just bigger.
- 12:31Have you UM tried to instill education as a form of um, a career
- 12:39path for your own children. It was a brief discussion, but you know,
- 12:46kids have that their minds are already made up. So I don't I
- 12:50didn't really pressure any of any of them to go into education. They know
- 12:56what I do. They see it on a daily basis. UM. So
- 13:01no, to be honest with you, I didn't impressure them to go into
- 13:03the field of education. I said it was. I just simply told them
- 13:07that it was an option, it was a viable option. So okay,
- 13:11So I want to ask you, what are the pros and cons of teaching
- 13:16elementary versus being a professor to young adults, m Um, To be honest
- 13:24with you, both, as far as a pro m, I enjoy teaching.
- 13:31I'm passionate about teaching, and so that for me is a pro for
- 13:35both. With the cons is the cons are well, the only con is
- 13:41with the students at Lander, they're adults. They're young adults. Their minds
- 13:43are already made up. You can be more impressionable with the smaller children,
- 13:50you can with the young adults. So um, that's pretty much the only
- 13:54con. But at the same point in time, the kids at Lander,
- 14:03they were somewhat impressionable from the standpoint that they see a blackmail teaching and you
- 14:07know, of course in the classroom, and they wanted to teach, and
- 14:11so I provided as much insight as I could. I'm not gonna say I
- 14:16provided advice, right, I don't provide advice. I tried to provide insight,
- 14:20and I tried to be somewhat of an example, for the children.
- 14:26I was about to say for the children, for the young adults. As
- 14:31you being a male Educatorum, what is that like in a field where it's
- 14:37predominantly women, What is that like for you? When I was a teacher,
- 14:43they always wanted to like in certain instances, I was only guy in
- 14:46the school. There were several instances in which I was only guy, and
- 14:50there were a couple of instances in which they were just a handful of us.
- 14:54But the ladies, they were very helpful, to the point where they
- 14:58sometimes I wanted to take over my class well as theirs. Yeah, but
- 15:05then I took the help. I wasn't like hesitant to take the help.
- 15:11I wasn't dejected by the fact that they would come in and somewhat try to
- 15:13take over. Again, It's about relationship. To me, it's about relationships.
- 15:18So I had healthy relationships with all of my colleagues and even now with
- 15:22even like with my employees, I have healthy relationships with them. So I'm
- 15:26kind of used to it now, just working with all females. Is there
- 15:31a motto or a mantra that you live by day to day that you take
- 15:37from school to home. Well, I mean I have a favorite quote.
- 15:41I have a favorite quote, and I have a favorite poem. My favorite
- 15:45quote is from Frederick Douglas. It's easy to build strong children than to repair
- 15:48broken men, right, And so that I carried that at school, and
- 15:54I carried that to school from the standpoint that, like I said before,
- 15:56these children are more impressionable than these young adults, and so I'll try to
- 16:00be the example for the children. And so it's easier for me to be
- 16:04more impressionable for them and on them more so than the young adults. And
- 16:10then Benjamin emays his poem God's Minute. I do live by that every day,
- 16:15and I was recited it. If you want me to do that matter,
- 16:18but I would love I've only just a minute, only sixty seconds in
- 16:22it forced upon. You can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose
- 16:23it. But it's up to me to use it for I'm gonna suffer if
- 16:26I lose it, give an account if I abuse it. Just a tiny
- 16:29little minute, but eternity is in it. I do live by that daily
- 16:33because I'm very thankful and grateful for the blessings that I've received. But at
- 16:37the same point in time, I do know that in any given moment,
- 16:40everything can be taken away. So God's Minute by Benjamin Emay's that's my favorite
- 16:45poem. I live by that on a daily basis, Okay, or my
- 16:51kids even know the poem. So what is what is your way of discipline
- 16:57for the children a versus your children at home? Both know that when I'm
- 17:04upset, I'm upset. It's more of a I tell them I'm disappointed than
- 17:08anything. Right, I don't have to get physical, I don't have to
- 17:11spank anybody at home nationally, I'm not gonna do that at school. But
- 17:17they know that when I'm disappointed, it kind of it hurts them more than
- 17:19anything else. I try to be the example for them, and I try
- 17:26to model. I try to model my expectations and so if I tell somebody
- 17:30I'm disappointed, they kind of take it to heart. And I'm very grateful
- 17:36that I don't have to really yale scream like at home or at school.
- 17:41So, right, I want to take you back for a minute, back
- 17:47to junior high high school. What was that like? Did you know,
- 17:53um, you said that you really didn't know that you wanted to be a
- 17:57teacher. You know, when you first started college. What was your junior
- 18:03high high school years like for you? I was kind of a well,
- 18:07you know, I was kind of a nerd. I I have an athletic
- 18:14ability, but I didn't let it shine as much as I let my academic
- 18:18ability shine, right, And so I was always I still love to read.
- 18:22I'm a voracious reader from time to time. I just read stuff on
- 18:26my home from time to time if it's inspiring. But I just stayed in
- 18:32the books. I joke like my brother Rico and I joke all the time
- 18:37about how he said he never saw me study, right, but little bit,
- 18:41you know, I used to wait to everybody went to sleep before I
- 18:44actually hit the books. And I barely slept at night. I will only
- 18:47get like four or five hours of sleep. And so, um, I
- 18:52just loved school. I mean, just from the standpoint that I was a
- 18:56voracious reader. One of my favorite teacher of all time, it's Francis Hardy,
- 19:02Doctor Francis Hardy. She was my English teacher at Spartanburg High School.
- 19:07She stayed on me about everything, um, and not just academics, just
- 19:14daily living, daily habits. She reminded me that as a black man,
- 19:19my my academic ability would take me further than my athletic ability. And so
- 19:25I loved Love's hardy for that. Love is hardy for that. I saw
- 19:29her a few months ago, she came to see me speak when I spoke
- 19:33at Foster Chapter Foster Chapel Batis Church in Roebuck. She still reminded me that,
- 19:41you know, she was very how proud of me she was, and
- 19:42she's very proud of me. So I will say that you have played a
- 19:48major part in my children's upbringing. M I credit some of how Deante is
- 19:57because of you and Maurice. Um, he couldn't have better uncles. Um.
- 20:06I thank God for for everything that y'all instilled in him, him being
- 20:11a young black male. Because of the two of you, he knew that,
- 20:15Um, he didn't have to play basketball or football or anything like that
- 20:21to be established in life. And you know, alf for ever took my
- 20:26hat to you both for that. And you know, with with deja Um
- 20:32even being on her the way that both of you have been, you know,
- 20:37hands on with her. She chose the path of going to cosmetology school
- 20:44and although she hasn't finished, she can still go back. And you know,
- 20:48Harrod's her first love, and I feel like, you know, with
- 20:52her dad and her mom and you guys, y'all pushed her and she's gonna
- 20:59do something with that, I hope. And again, I thank you so
- 21:03much for what you've done for my kids. I would love to have k
- 21:08around you so that she can get some of that too. But UM,
- 21:15just to go back, what was your childhood like for you? Growing up
- 21:18with two brothers and your parents. Yeah, I'm the middle of three boys,
- 21:25and so you know how that goes. I was constantly child syndrome to
- 21:32a degree. I was constantly doing something to gain some attention from somebody.
- 21:36Nothing to the point of where it was well, yeah, there were a
- 21:38couple of questionable moments, but nothing to the point of where my mom had
- 21:42to second guess you know what I was doing. But I'm very grateful for
- 21:48my mother and my father's deceased, as you already know. But my mom
- 21:52was the rock, the anchor, the foundation of the family, and so
- 21:56she constantly stayed on us, making sure that we did the right thing.
- 22:00Um, in spite of our environment, as you very well know. Um,
- 22:04in spite of things that went on and in our environment, she made
- 22:08sure that we steered clear from anything negative. And I joke and we tell
- 22:15people all the time, I don't fear anything or anybody, but Lynda Little
- 22:18John, as many, you know, as many opportunities as we had left,
- 22:26she made sure that we stayed right and on the right path. She
- 22:30doesn't play. She didn't play. She still don't play. Bill doesn't play.
- 22:34And I'm forever grateful for the lessons. And I'll tell you the lessons
- 22:40and the blessings that you know that were bestowed upon us in spite of the
- 22:44circumstances that went on around us. Yeah, you know, I met you
- 22:48guys when your mom was a caregiver for my grandma, and so you know,
- 22:53growing up around you guys, Um, it's always felt like family.
- 23:00And so you know, when me and Rito got married and I brought Dante
- 23:04into the fold and he brought Daja, you never treated them differently. And
- 23:11I'm I'm humbled, and I'm grateful that he got the family that he got.
- 23:17Um. You know, we all fall on hard times or whatever,
- 23:21but I applied all of you for not letting anything you know, bad that
- 23:26has happened in your life stopped you from being where you need to be.
- 23:32Um, what I want to talk to you now is UM being a black
- 23:37father. Sometimes when we grow up, like for me, I was adopted
- 23:47and my dad thought that I where in the world like he never you know,
- 23:55he didn't chastise me for anything. But my mama was on my head.
- 23:57She she didn't play. But UM, you know what, what is
- 24:03it that you instill in your children that molded you from where you came from?
- 24:14Um. Life has been a beautiful struggle. Life has been a beautiful
- 24:18journey, just from the standpoint that I live by the mindset that you know,
- 24:25you can either stuck, stay stuck in your circumstances or wise above them.
- 24:30Um. In spite of the things that went on around us, And
- 24:33as I said before, I'm very grateful for my mom because you know,
- 24:37she taught us that you know, you can rise above anything as long as
- 24:40you stick you know, stick to UM that positive mindset. And so I
- 24:45try to instill that same thing, you know in my kids in spite of
- 24:48things that go on. You know, nothing's going to be perfect, right,
- 24:51in spite of things that may, you know, maybe stumbling blocks,
- 24:56but you're able to get over those stumbling blocks. You may, You're able
- 24:59to overcome those obstacles if you choose to. Yeah, it was rough growing
- 25:04up. It was very rough growing up. But at the same point in
- 25:07time, I had the mindset that, you know, I'm not going to
- 25:11always stay in that particular circumstance. Either be a victim of it, or
- 25:15you rise above it. Right. So the mindset that I have now is
- 25:18a father is I tell the kids all the time, you know, you
- 25:19can either stay stuck in your current situation or you can rise above it.
- 25:23You know, anything that negative, anything that goes on around you, anything
- 25:27that happens that's negative, you know, it's a setup for a major comeback.
- 25:32You know, people always people always say, you know, it's a
- 25:34minor setback for a major comeback. That's you know, those words are powerful.
- 25:41Right. I'll tell the kids all the time, in spite of things
- 25:42that going around you, that may be negative, that may be singingly insurmountable,
- 25:48as long as you have that stick tuitiveness, so to speak, you'll
- 25:52be able to overcome it. And I try to buy positive encouragement all the
- 25:56time. Right. What advice would you give to a young black male who's
- 26:03thinking about getting into education as a career. Sure, it's not the most
- 26:08glamorous, and it's not the most prestigious, and it's not the most you're
- 26:15not gonna get paid a lot. But if you're called, if it's if,
- 26:18if it's a passion for you, sky's the limit because you know you
- 26:22don't have to necessarily stay in the classroom. I knew when I first started
- 26:26teaching that I was not going to get paid a lot, and so it
- 26:30was a natural progression for me to teach them, become an assistant principle,
- 26:34and then become a principal. And so I'm very grateful for the journey,
- 26:38the educational journey, the professional journey. If it's something that you're called to
- 26:45do, by all means, do it. I enjoyed teaching. I knew
- 26:49at the outset that I wasn't gonna make a lot of money. But at
- 26:52the same point in time, I had fun with it, and I'm having
- 26:53fun nounced principle. Of course, what drives you? I always, for
- 27:00some for some benign reason, UM, I keep pushing myself to the limit.
- 27:07UM. I just graduated, as you already know, with my doctorate.
- 27:10UM this past thank you, thank you, and I'm actually taking more
- 27:17courses. UM. I'm taking a course now through the State Department and it's
- 27:22called the School Leadership Executive Institute. And I'm also taking a course through Harvard,
- 27:30and the course and through Harvard is based on organization development. And so
- 27:36the thing that drives me is just again, I love learning. Um,
- 27:40I'm a voracious reader. Something small I don't care, something big, I
- 27:45don't care. I love to read. And so I'm always pushing myself.
- 27:48Nobody pushes me more than me, and so my internal drive allows me to
- 27:55keep going forward. And UM, you know, just keep forging ahead in
- 27:57spite of things that you know may try to block me. I just keep
- 28:02have tonnel vision because I know that I have a specific goal professionally as well
- 28:06as academically. I know that sounds kind of nerdish, but that's just it.
- 28:11Um, being that I'm a person of empathy. Um, what is
- 28:18it with you that? Um? How do you take how I'm trying to
- 28:25ask you this. Like every child that you come in contact with, they
- 28:29all have their own personalities and their own struggles at home. How do you
- 28:37not bring that home with you? Oh? No, I kind of tune
- 28:41it out because I always say when I'm at work, people don't know Carlos
- 28:45Little John r will just no doctor LJ principle, So they don't know me
- 28:49personally unless I allow them in my space. But I'm able to balance the
- 28:55personal and professional and to be honest with you when I get home. My
- 28:59wife doesn't care about doctor LJ. He cares about Carlos. My kids don't
- 29:03care about doctor LJ. They care about that, right. So I've been
- 29:07able to actually balance the two thankfully over the years, because once I come
- 29:14in my house, once I crossed that front door, there's no more doctor
- 29:17LJ. It's you know, Carlos the husband, Carlos the father, And
- 29:22so I've been able to thank you. I've been able to have that healthy
- 29:26balance, right. So, UM, I want to thank you for coming
- 29:32on my show tonight. UM. I was hesitant about asking you because I
- 29:37was like, he gonna tell me no. I know he's gonna say no,
- 29:41but you know, you never know unless you ask. So I wanted
- 29:45to reach out to you because, UM, education is important. It is
- 29:52UM, especially amongst us black people. UM. There are so many different
- 29:57things that we're not privy too. And you know, if we all come
- 30:03together and for the betterment of our people, we can really get further.
- 30:10And so I you know, I wanted to do this tonight with you to
- 30:15show people that you know, education is good, you need it, and
- 30:21so you know, UM, I applaud you for everything that you've done so
- 30:26far. Thank you. My next question and final question is what's next for
- 30:32Carlos. Um. I don't know. People ask me if I want to
- 30:37be a superintendent, and I'm like, oh uh, not exactly. I
- 30:42love teaching, and so um, once I've got five more years in education
- 30:48public education, I've got five more years. Um. Honestly, whatever God
- 30:52has in store for me, I welcome it with open arms. And so
- 30:56I can't necessarily say what's next because I could have one plan, but yeah,
- 31:03I have another. Yeah, And so whatever God has a story for
- 31:06me will be for me. I just I enjoy teaching, and so if
- 31:11teaching is the next step going back to the classroom, it is what it
- 31:15is. But I know if I've got five more use of public education,
- 31:18and I'm going to do something different, right, So I do want to
- 31:25encourage you to write that book. You know what you say that, And
- 31:29I was thinking about a title today. I've got several options as far as
- 31:36titles, but it's just a matter of me do yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 31:42because I've got several. I mean I started. This is gonna sound
- 31:45crazy, but I started thinking about this years ago in regards to writing a
- 31:51book. And then now that I'm finished with the dissertation, yeah, we're
- 31:55gonna get the ball rolling. So well, you know that's a little bit
- 31:59of time before you know, I'm I go progressive the next thing. Well,
- 32:02you know, if you need your system law, I got you because
- 32:06I got like seven books under my belt so far. So um, nothing
- 32:13can stop you now you you really started from the bottom and and now you're
- 32:19here, so there's nowhere else to go but up. And I want to
- 32:25see you go up. I want to see how far you know this life
- 32:30takes you and your family. So, UM, I want to thank you
- 32:35for coming on tonight. UM, thank you for the invitation. Absolutely.
- 32:40UM. I would love to have you back after you've written this book so
- 32:46we can talk about this book. But UM, I want to thank everybody
- 32:52for watching tonight. Um. I'll be back on August Sport teen, eight
- 32:59o'clock with my guests, Miss Lakeisha Trim and we got some some crazy stuff.
- 33:06We got cooked up. But UM again y'all, UM, delayed but
- 33:12not deny. You may be delayed, but God, whatever he has for
- 33:15you is for you and it will not be denied unto you. So until
- 33:21next time, I thank you. UM. I noticed that people have been
- 33:27posting some comments at the bottom, thank you for the positive feedback and the
- 33:30positive vibes. So I wanted to say that I just I literally just noticed
- 33:34several people that responded, and so thank you guys again. UM to all
- 33:40the commenters, UM, he's just seeing your comments. After this is over
- 33:46and it's posted, you can, UM, you and Felicia can go through
- 33:51and you can see the comments and you can reply that way if you'd like
- 33:53to. So, UM again, thank you, thank you. You're well
- 34:00you're forcing me out of my comfort zone by doing this, because you know
- 34:01I'm not on social media so right, but just know, just know that,
- 34:07UM, this is a doorway for better for you. Like when when
- 34:12you write this book, people are gonna want to know who Carlos is.
- 34:16They're gonna want to know about this book. And so I'll have you come
- 34:22back again if you allow it to UM to talk about the book. And
- 34:28congratulations again, thank you, So again, thank you for coming. Um,
- 34:34it's been fun. I don't want to keep you because I know you
- 34:37got other things to do in school, right and I wish you the best
- 34:44year possible this year and moving forward. Thank you. You're welcome. They're not everybody