“Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise, it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage.” ― Jane Harper, The Lost Man And,… Read More ›
Education
The Insanity of Doing the Same Things Repeatedly and Expecting Different Outcomes
“The most important part of an introduction always occurs in one’s absence.” ― Kate Zambreno, Green Girl Before we get rolling, let me apologize to Greeneville, Tennessee. Inadvertently, I misspelled the district name in last week’s blog post. As… Read More ›
Treading Familiar Floor Boards
“Call them gooks, call them niggers, call them kikes, micks, spics, wops, or frogs, call them whatever you want as long as you call them something—anything—that removes one layer of human being from their bodies when you think of them…. Read More ›
A Peek Below the Surface
“It’s not that you don’t understand, it’s that you don’t like it.” ― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires The first week of school is officially in the books for Nashville schools. Still trying to wrap my head… Read More ›
The Gift of Flight
“It doesn’t take much to make the daily round with one’s employer work smoothly. A couple of ‘yessirs’ when you know that ‘not on your life’ is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you’ve spent… Read More ›
Sometimes Silence is the Better Course of Action
“if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.” ― Grant Allen, The Woman Who Did Let’s get the not-directly related-to-education things off of our plate first. At first blush, they… Read More ›
We Need to Start Making Sense
“Oh! dreadful is the check—intense the agony— When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to… Read More ›
More Summer Shenanigans
“Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice.” ― Derek Robinson, Piece of Cake As I’ve probably mentioned more than once over the years, my son is a pretty solid ball player. He’s 12… Read More ›
The Students May Be Gone, But the Adults Still Play.
“Finally, after years of study and watching, I realized our teachers were not just teaching steps or imparting technical knowledge, they were giving us their culture and their tradition. “Why” was not the point and the steps were not just… Read More ›
Futile Efforts
“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.” ― Linda Grant, I Murdered My Library “Book banning” continues to be front-page news, and I continue to observe with some amusement. Don’t get me wrong,… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 