THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS
Dad Gone Wild
Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.
HARD PLUS INCONVENIENT DOES NOT EQUAL INEFFECTIVE
by TC Weber / 21h
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” ― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace Am I the only one that sees the irony in us planning to send kids back to school the same week as the President is diagnosed with the virus? Or the irony that we are sending kid
GUTCHECK
by TC Weber / 1d
“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir You would think that if a politician stood in front of a room full of microphones and made a pronouncement about pending dire outcomes, that the easiest question to answer after the announcement would be, where is the data to support your announcement? After all, if you a
LET’S SEE WHAT CREDO HAS TO SAY
by TC Weber / 3d
“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.” ― Galileo Galilei One of my more pleasant discoveries si
A FIRING OFFENSE
by TC Weber / 4d
“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.” ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark The field of student assessments is a complex one. Its a field heavily reliant on high level math, complex algorythm, and a deep understanding of subject matter. Used pr
DOES IT EVER STOP?
by TC Weber / 7d
“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.” ― Patti Smith One might have thought that three days of posts on education practices and policies in Tennessee would suffice, they would be wrong. Today I turn away from the Circus of Illusions being crafted by the Tennessee Department of Education and it’s erstwhile leader, Penny Schwinn. The leaving out of the honora
DID THE GOVERNOR COMMISSION A BIRD?
100+by TC Weber / 8d
“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect. If a writer doesn’t give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves; if she doesn’t court disapproval, reproach, and general wr
REPRESENTATIVE MARK WHITE’S INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC PROM DATE
by TC Weber / 9d
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” ― Anton Chekhov Yesterday Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn made a long-anticipated appearance before the Tennessee House Education Committee as part of their Summer study. Luckily she had Memphis State Representative and Education Committee Chairman Mark White to serve as her escort for the affair. White
WHAT’S LEFT WHEN THERE ARE NO GOOD OR BAD CHOICES?
by TC Weber / 10d
“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh. There, there, said Piglet. I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh “You are either the sort of person who shapes society, or the sort of person whose life is affected by the shape of society.” ― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty Like most parents in Nashville, last week was one fraught with a choice – to remain virt
PROCEED AT YOUR OWN PERIL
by TC Weber / 14d
“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn’t pay to be sane.” ― Terry Goodkind, 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” ― D.L. Moody It was about 7, or a little after, as we made o