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Work Hard, Burn Out, Repeat: The Culture Schools Won’t Quit
“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less.” “Unless you love them.” ― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus I started in the service industry in 1981. And let me tell you—what passed for “normal”… Read More ›
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From WalMart Checkout to the Education Industrial Complex
“When you’re living so intensely in your head there isn’t any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you’re both omnipotent and powerless.” ― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick Waiting in Line, Listening In, and… Read More ›
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Waiting for the Unraveling
“It’s always a matter, isn’t it, of waiting for the world to come unraveled? When things hold together, it’s always only temporary.”― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers They say timing is everything, and last week offered prime evidence of that… Read More ›
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WrestleMania Politics and the Slow Death of Dialogue
Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time.” ― Livy, Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI-XLV of the History of Rome from its Foundation I’m struggling—and I think we all are…. Read More ›
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Skate Parties, Sacks, and the Price of Progress
“Don’t ever try to change her,’ my mother said, before she died. ‘The tusks of an elephant will never grow out of a dog’s mouth. You know that.” ― Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking From AI in the… Read More ›
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Compliance, Technology, and the Classroom: The Appearance vs. Reality Problem
“Tolerance isn’t just a discourse of power, it is also a discourse of conditionality; that is to say, you will be tolerated unless and until you behave in certain ways, at which point I will no longer tolerate you.” ―… Read More ›
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🍩 Donuts, Loyalty Oaths, and a Mascot: What the Hell Is Going On at MNPS?
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.” ― Mary Renault, The Charioteer Principals who showed up for Metro Nashville Public Schools’ regularly scheduled leadership meeting this… Read More ›
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“Vouchers, AI, and the Loyalty Circus
“Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.” ― Doris Kearns Goodwin Vouchers and AI: The Two Policy Punchlines Two things that suck the air out… Read More ›
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The Real Cost of Silence in Nashville Schools
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society.” — John F. Kennedy, in a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, 1961 Three weeks ago, the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools Board announced a $6.5 million… Read More ›
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First Day Blues, Lawsuit Clues, and Political Cues
The first day of school was always a day of mixed emotions, a fragile balance between fear and excitement, like standing on the edge of something vast and unknown.”— *R.J. Palacio, Wonder The alarm blares like a fire drill… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 