I hope everybody had themselves a pretty good Memorial Day holiday. This weekends poll got condiderably less responses than the last couple of weeks, hopefully because everyone was out enjoying the holiday, but the responses were no less interesting. Before… Read More ›
It’s official now. Summer is here and another school year has passed. It was a hectic week here in Dad Gone Wild Land. Graduation ceremonies took place all across MNPS and as always they were emotional for teachers and parents…. Read More ›
To say the results from this weekend’s poll were surprising, would be an understatement. They certainly were not what I would have predicted. I appreciate all of you who shared their views with us. Overall we had 265 people respond…. Read More ›
The last full week of schools for MNPS students comes to a close today. Hope it was a good week for you as it was for me. The highlight of my week was attending Project Lit’s book club meeting with… Read More ›
Wow! This weekend’s poll got phenomenal response. I was amazed and appreciative that over 300 of you responded to this past weekends poll questions. Once again, the leading answers surprised me a bit. Let’s review. On magnet schools, it turns… Read More ›
This has been one action packed week! Between school board meetings focused on teacher raises, a resignation of a popular school leader, and the last book club meeting of Project Lit, this week has progressed at warp speed. We’ve made… Read More ›
Metro Nashville Public Schools has lost a keeper. Dr. Tim Drinkwine put in his resignation today. He is reportedly taking some time away from education to focus on his family after serving 3 years at the head of Eakin Elementary… Read More ›
Happy Monday morning! Only 2 more left in Nashville until the end of school. That means I’m soon to have a 2nd and a 3rd grader in the house. Who’d a ever thunk? There was a lot of input in… Read More ›
On Friday I shared a letter that I had received from students enrolled in German studies at Hume-Fogg HS here in Nashville. They were concerned because due to purported budget cuts their beloved German program was being phased out. Not… Read More ›
Hume-Fogg is an Academic Magnet School here in Nashville Tennessee. It is consitantly ranked near the top for public schools in the state. Recently Metro Nashville Public Schools has been changing it’s budgetary formula causing many schools to acing very… Read More ›
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