I am going to circle back to a common theme in this blog. Why are many public school systems protecting bad administrators when they 100% KNOW that the administrator has behaved in an unprofessional, ineffective, and/or inappropriate manner? I mean the stories I hear are shocking. They are bad enough […]
Category: Education Policy and Opinion
Digital Privacy: A Student Right Trampled Upon by Nearly Every School System
Do you really know where your child’s data is being stored by your local system? Do you know what data is being collected? Do you know your local board policy about student data privacy rights? Do they have a clear policy defining what data is being collected and how that […]
Kingsport City Schools Bans Parents From School Cafeterias
It just keeps getting weirder by the minute, folks. Recently, there have been a litany of questionable decisions by the leaders of Kingsport’s school system. KCS painted over the Indian in J Fred. “Indians” has been removed from the new basketball court. We have been rebranded “The Tribe” without so […]
Retaining Our Best Educators and The Cost of Inaction
We have this one life. It is an overused but incredibly powerful statement. I was telling one of my kids not to worry about what other people think of them. I said, “Just follow Jesus and live your life boldly. You can’t worry about what others think about you. Some […]
Men No Longer Allowed to Compete in Women’s Sports
And all the people said, “Amen.” Progressivism has slowly and quietly eroded the rights of female athletes. As with so many whistleblowers in education, anyone who dared speak about this was immediately ostracized, threatened, and reputations tarnished with false allegations. Female athletes were especially at risk. Cancel culture would find […]
Homeschool Student-Athletes Fight for the Right to be on Wall of Distinction in the D-B Dome
Let’s keep this simple. If a student(homeschool or KCS) competes for the Dobyns-Bennett Indians in any varsity sport, they should have an equal opportunity to be placed upon the “Athletes of Distinction” wall. Wordsmithing this any other way (by KCS officials) just sounds gross. WJHL has a full article about […]
A Win for the Deplorables
The vote in the Tennessee General Assembly yesterday was a win for children currently sitting in a terrible school situation who can’t get out. It was a win for parents tired of sending their children to a school system where leadership is behaving unjustly. It was a win for the […]
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John Adams once stated, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” I might add that fair elections results are stubborn things as well. Repeat after me, “My vote counts just […]
An Overdue Thank You to Governor Bill Lee’s Administration for Getting Our Schools Open During COVID
I know many of you helped us in the long fight to get schools open in Northeast Tennessee during Covid. It was brutal to see what school closures were doing to our community and our families. While private schools remained open for the entirety of the pandemic along with other […]