ARE MASKS THE NEW CHARTER SCHOOLS?“I guess it’s like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of the day, and he was a little kid, like, with tennis shoes on, and they said ‘Look at this lame!’ They didn’t use those words in those days. They said ‘God, here comes this nut.’ And he told them, ‘I’m great!’ And he sat with them, and he loved to be with them, and it ended up that he was great.”
RIGHT FIGHT, WRONG TIME“Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we’re not as big and mighty as we think.” ― Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood Last week, Metro Nashville Public Schools along with SCS, defied Governor Lee and refused to make alterations to their mask mandates despite his issuance of an Executive Order giving parents a right to opt of any district-mandated mask policy. It was
POLITICS OR VIRTUE?“Why are you in such a rush?” Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.” ― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book This past weekend I’ve given a great deal of thought to David Plaza’s editorial for the Tennessean praising MNPS and SCS Superintendents as “heroes” for standing up to the Governor’s Executive Order that would al
A STEP BACK FROM THE EDGE?“After all, the purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs; it’s to evolve our beliefs.” ― Adam Grant, Think again: the power of knowing what you don’t know Since the dawn of time, society has been shaped by two opposing core tenets that have been in continual conflict. We like to think that we’ve evolved to a point of bearing little resemblance to our forefathers, but the reality is that we
AIN’T GOING TO END WELL FOR ANYONE“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ” ― John F. Kennedy Growing up, I was blessed to have a dear friend who was a scorched earth fighter. What I mean by that is, every time a conflict arose between the two of us, they were going to spare no effort in order to win that fight. So when you entered a figh
