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THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it
THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS
Dad Gone Wild
Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it
A CALL FROM SLOTSKI
by TC Weber / 4d
“When you’re sure of what you’re looking at, look harder.” ― Richard Powers, Generosity: An Enhancement Last night I was laid back in the recliner watching the Braves let Game 5 of the World Series slip away when the phone rang. Picking it up and looking at the screen revealed an incoming call from my pal Slotski. “What’s up?” I said, answering the phone. “Just calling to make sure you are all ri
SMOKE ON THE WATER, FIRE IN THE SKY
by TC Weber / 7d
“ Go home, take a paper bag, and cut some eye holes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed, and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest.” – Joan, Mad Men When it comes to education policy – local, state, and federal -the level of the smoke of late has risen to a near-impenetrable level. Without a program to reveal the players
DOES TENNESSEE HAVE COW PROBLEMS?
by TC Weber / 11d
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think” -Toni Morrison America is undergoing a massive uncoupling between its workers and their employers. Not only is it becoming impossible to staff new openings, but workers are leaving their current jobs in record numbers. For professions, like teaching, where staffing pre-pandemic was already difficult, this significantly r
A QUESTION OF MOTIVE
by TC Weber / 14d
“In chess everyone had a pattern, a tendency. Average human players were invariably predictable. They had grooves in their brains, like furrows in a plowed field out in Beulah County. And the trick to being a great chess player, the masters said, was to be unpredictable. To get out of your groove.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School I was working on Wednesday’s piece when the phone rang. Pickin
THE MAKINGS OF A BAD REALITY SHOW
by TC Weber / 16d
“I know, right. I keep thinking” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing Part Saturday Night Live, part blind power grab, Governor Lee’s drive to reform the state’s education funding formula entered its second week just as befuddling, amusing, and horrific as it kicked off. In case you missed it, last week Governor lee announced the creation of a task force, consisting of a steering committee and
AN EXERCISE IN HUBRIS?
by TC Weber / 18d
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want
AT FIRST BLUSH…
by TC Weber / 25d
“My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.” ― Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love Well, this day is starting out like a Monday. 600 words into my thoughts about the alignment between parenthood and schools, I realize that I am looking at a jumbled mess that
