GRIT YOUR TEETH
We admire people and fictional characters from all walks of life who display courage, bravery, spirit, strength of character, fortitude, resolve, determination, endurance, and spunk. All of these words are synonyms for a now “hated” word…. GRIT. Why?
I believe it is because it is another word stolen from our positive vocabulary by “reformistas” and thus has been deemed anathema to use.
That’s letting the wolf tell us what to believe!
However it seems, that even within the wolf’s lair there is a dispute about “grit” and the stupidity to try to test and measure it.
In this NYT article entitled, Testing for Joy and Grit? Schools Nationwide Push to Measure Students’ Emotional Skills, Kate Zernike interviews people on both sides of the argument about whether or not to test for the social and emotional skills educators know kids need to succeed in school and post high school.
She writes,
“A recent update to federal education law requires states to include at least GRIT YOUR TEETH | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing:
