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  • QUESTIONS ON PD AND READING

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    Here we are at the end of another week. I must warn you that I am listening to the new Rancid record as I write this, so I hope things don’t get too aggressive. If so I’ll switch over to… Read More ›

  • WHO ARE WE SAVING PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR?

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    Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the charter school wars. Apparently I’m not alone in this pursuit. The Network for Public Education recently came out with their position. Two bloggers – Jersey Jazzman and Peter Greene – whom I have immense respect… Read More ›

  • ONE PARENT’S VOICE ON SCHOOL CHOICE

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    I started this blog some four years ago due to encouragement and inspiration by a blogger named Crazy Crawfish. Crazy would say, I’m not the smartest man in the room but my job is to make enough noise to get… Read More ›

  • INSIDE THE FIRST POLL IN JUNE.

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    Today starts the first week of MNPS Encore camp. Encore is the districts program for academically gifted children. The kid’s went last year and absolutely loved it. I must say I was very pleasantly surprised this morning when I dropped… Read More ›

  • First June Poll

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    I hope everybody survived the first week of vacation. Over in our household we are celebrating the 6 year old boy passing his swim test. He hadn’t been swimming for months but as we drove to the pool he continually… Read More ›

  • MEMORIAL DAY POLL THOUGHTS

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    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 ›

  • MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND POLL

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    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 ›

  • THOUGHTS ON 5/19 POLL

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    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 ›

  • MAY 19TH WEEKEND POLL

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    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 ›

  • FOLLOW UP ON 5/12 POLL

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    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 ›