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TN Lawmakers Employ the Tush Push to Pass Voucher Legislation.
“I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.” ― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World I opened up one eye and squinted as I looked toward the window. Looks like the son was going… Read More ›
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School Board Glaze Amid Heartbreak
“Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.” ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North I try to produce a new Dad Gone Wild piece every Friday. It’s important to have a schedule, but sometimes,… Read More ›
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We Got To Do Better
“Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.” ― William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means Wednesday morning I was working at home, at my desk. It’d been… Read More ›
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Heroes, Hypocrisy, and Hubris
“One of the grimmer realizations of Sarkis’s youth had been the discovery that knowing you were being an ass did not actually stop you from continuing to be an ass.” ― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart In September of 2021, middle… Read More ›
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Snow Day Musings
“Belief has nothing to do with truth.” ― Percival Everett, James If you are just about anywhere in the country, outside Califonia, I hope today finds you warm and cozy curled up in your home, devoid of purpose besides… Read More ›
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Out With The Old and In With The New – But Will We Be Able To Tell The Difference?
“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.” ― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom Twenty four is now a wrap and it is off to twenty five. Reading through my social… Read More ›
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Christmas Miracles
“People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the… Read More ›
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Yule Time Education Policy News from the Volunteer State
“education at all levels, from small children through to young adults, is of such fundamental importance to the flourishing of the community under any form of constitution that it must be publicly determined and can’t possibly be left to be… Read More ›
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Who is at the Center of the Education Policy Conversation?
“For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments… Read More ›
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Black Friday Blues
“Consistent only with his own warped and peculiar brand of logic, he was prepared to take measures with such far-reaching consequences for the German population that the very survival he claimed to be fighting for was fundamentally threatened. Ultimately, the… Read More ›
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