An amazing thing happened Monday morning at the Natchez Convention Center — Adams County’s entire educational system came together to kick off the new school year.

It’s almost silly to think that the first countywide meeting of educators from public, private and parochial schools happened in 2009.

It sure does seem like such a meeting should have happened decades ago, but dwelling on the past isn’t the point of Monday’s Partnership in Education breakfast and convocation.

The point was to open dialogue between educators and administrators of all our schools.

The fact is that teachers are teachers and children are children, no matter where they go to school. Each group shares great similarities with one another.

Bringing our schools’ teachers and administrators together — even if only once a year — is a great start.

Our community has much to gain by finding ways to bring groups together and focus on how we can collectively improve our community.

We applaud the Natchez-Adams County’s Chamber of Commerce’s Education Committee for seeing the need and making the event happen. It’s one of several such good project the committee seems to be working these days, including working to bring all of the schools together under one common school calendar.

With all of the recent talk about regionalism in the air, perhaps next year, the kick-off can include some of the Concordia Parish Schools personnel, too, if we can fit all of those people into one big educational summit.