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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Data and dinner. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Data and dinner. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Data and dinner.

I may have mentioned this before. But I guess I’m mentioning it again.

There was a time when if I met someone for the first time, say over dinner, and I told them that I was a K-5 art teacher I would get, “Oh, that must be fun.”

And aside from the slight condescension in the tone of voice, we would end up having a good conversation about kids. They laughed at amusing school stories. We might end up in a discussion about art.

Now people want to talk to me about unions, tenure,