GREENE – The Chenango County School Board Association held its annual Spring Dinner on Thursday, and its keynote speaker suggested members stop blaming millennials and start teaching students to be leaders.

The meeting took place at The Silo, a restaurant in Greene, and it was attended by board members from Chenango County, and school staff from neighboring counties.

"Millennials are the Frankenstein monster we created," said New York State School Board Member Relations Manager Patrick Longo. "It's easy to blame a generation for everything, but we have to be the change we want to see in the world."

Longo said it's easier to blame the younger generations than to teach them, and it's up to our school boards to influence their schools into making future leaders.

He asked the board members, "Do you remember the saying, 'Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.'"