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Saturday, June 26, 2021

THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it + TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT

 Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.


THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS 
Dad Gone Wild 
Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it


 
OF SEAHORSES, AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS
“I probably didn’t share his feelings – he hoped, really, that I didn’t – but he was no longer interested in socialising; in fact, increasingly he found other people positively bewildering. The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you don’t bump into them on the street or at a party, you have to know where they are and go to them by arrangement.” ― Rachel Cusk, Outline This morning I read
DESPITE ALL THE TALKING, NOBODY IS TALKING
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville My writing has been a little erratic this summer and for that, I apologize. As we emerge from the pandemic, work responsibilities have picked up, we’ve refinanced the house, purchased a new car, and the wife got a new hip. So things have been a little hectic. To further compou
OFF SEASON MOVES
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations The education world is a lot like the NFL. The off-season that

Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.


TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT

TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT

TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT

EDUCATION POLITICS AND POLICY IN THE VOLUNTEER STATE


Williamson County Struggles with Teacher Pay
Tori Keafer in the Williamson Herald explains the struggle Williamson County Schools faces with paying teachers enough to live in the county where they are being asked to teach. Currently, the base salary for teachers in WCS is $40,150. In 2019, the Williamson County Board of Commissioners passed a 7-cent property tax increase to bump the base pay from $37,500 to the current rate. Housing Struggl
Wit, Wisdom, and Williamson County
If you’re looking for the hotbed of leftist indoctrination in Tennessee, you should look no further than Williamson County, the wealthiest in the state, located just south of Nashville. I mean, just look at the Williamson County Schools embracing diversity and also promoting seahorse porn. It’s very troubling. Williamson Strong has a take on the latest events there: As a reminder, the national Mo


TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT