PROCEED AT YOUR OWN PERIL – Dad Gone Wild
PROCEED AT YOUR OWN PERIL
“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn’t pay to be sane.”
― The Pillars of Creation
“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it”
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It was about 7, or a little after, as we made our way back across town from my daughter’s ballet class at Nashville Ballet. Both my 5th-grade son and 6th-grade daughter were engaged in an animated conversation about their school day.
“Daddy, Mr. Keel’s sense of humor is so like mine. Right now we are covering the Mesopotamian age. Mr. Keel says it is really a lot of ground to cover and we don’t want to rush through it too fast. But it’s so interesting.”
“Ms. Cacho’s class is really good. She’s almost as hard as Mrs. Yaklin. She’s really making us work hard.”
“Yea well everybody says Mr. Keel is really strict, but Daddy he’s not. Sure he’s tough but he really tries to help students. I also really like the way Dr. Lemmon is teaching us writing, the prompts really get me thinking. Peter, how was Drama class?”
“Drama Club!!! I was in Drama Club! it was good, Grace and Diana were in there.”
“Grace? Well, that figures, she likes drama…but I didn’t know Diana would be in there. I need to get in that.”
By just listening to them talk, you’d never realize that every class and every teacher they discussed was experienced virtually. Eventually, they got around to listing their favorite all-time teachers, CONTINUE READING: PROCEED AT YOUR OWN PERIL – Dad Gone Wild