NOW THAT’S A HEAD SCRATCHER“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation” ― Charles Darwin By this time tomorrow, we’ll be hours from Orlando. Saturday my youngest competes in the Pan Am Games in Jui Jitsu. It’ll be a stressful, but welcome reprieve from the daily grind. After the competition, we plan to spend a day in Orlando and another at the beach. It’s as close as we get to a vacation. (Though my son has repeatedly
EVEN MORE QUESTIONS“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it’s mine.” ― Tove Jansson, Travelling Light Today we are going to revisit the themes and stories of Fridays’ post , as more has come to light over the weekend. Hopefully, I’ll provide you even more fodder for thought. First up, let us revisit the case of the disappearing Superintendent, Last week we discussed the resignation of National Superint
QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, I GOT QUESTIONS“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it” ― Fernando Pessoa Sometimes it’s the things that are not talked about that echo the loudest. Case in point, this week reigning State Superintendent of the year Bryan Johnson of Chattanooga announced his resignation as leader of Hamilton County Schools . His date of departure is slated for just a couple day
HOW DO WE CHOOSE?“Sometimes, because we use the same words, we assume we mean the same thing” ― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love I continue to read extensively about America’s ongoing battle with history – the stories we tell and how we tell them. As I read these stories, I play them against the backdrop of our oft-voiced desire to teach children the ability to think critically. As I read the arguments for what to l
THREE STIKES NORMALLY SIGNIFY AN OUT“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.” ― Descartes Those of us who are parents are likely familiar with the strategy of repeatedly reframing a question until you get the answer you want. Our children do it to us on a daily basis. “Dad, can we go to the playground?” “All my friends are at the playground, can we go see my friends?” “There is no
A LITTLE SMOKE OFTEN MEANS A FIRE“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Hope y’all had a fantastic holiday. Here in Tennessee, the weather couldn’t have been better and it was a welcome opportunity to recharge rapidly dwindling batteries. Like most of you, as of late, I’ve been reading a great deal about Critical Race Theory. As a result, my level of
SCHWINNING AGAIN“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or he
