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 […]
Category: Values
The Silent Majority and The Lessons Which We Can Learn From The Collapse of Traditional Scouting
Growing up, The Boy Scouts of America were easily one of the two most important outside influences in my life. The other was my church youth group. It grieves me to see the shell of Scouting which exists today. The Boy Scouts of America failed to remember what it did […]
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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 […]
Make Orwell Fiction Again: Trump Will Work to Reverse the Biden Legacy
Make Orwell Fiction Again. Now that is a catchy quote, and a clever play on the Trump campaign’s famous slogan. I was listening to Elon Musk on a recent Joe Rogan podcast. He turned the phrase during that show. How appropriate given that today is Inauguration Day. Let’s take a […]
Valuing Uniqueness: What Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Creative Learning Environments
We had a superintendent several years ago who wanted cookie cutter students, cookie cutter teachers, and cookie cutter buildings. Everything from instructional delivery to minimalist classrooms to pacing…the same. Our school system was treated as a business. Our people were treated as human capital. The classrooms which once fostered creativity […]
Pro-Voucher Talk: School Systems Are Not Businesses and Our Tax Dollars Are Not Their Earnings
The power rests with the people. Our tax dollars are…ours. If you want to make a teacher angry, refer to them as human capital. That sounds proprietary in nature. School systems do not own people. Not students, not parents, not faculty, not anybody. The power of school systems should rest […]
Black History Month February 2025: An Essay about True Professional Diversity and Its Vital Importance to Our Schools
After I finished this essay, I realized that I am not gonna be able to say all that I need to say in one post. This will be the first of what I hope will be several essays about the value of true diversity – not the forced kind but […]
David or Saul: Who are we going to be as educators?
Saul had the mandate. Israel wanted a king. God gave them a king. The problem is that Saul kind of did things halfway. He never fully committed to doing what God asked. He had a son who would have been a wonderful successor. But Saul couldn’t get it together. It […]
What would Jesus do at a data conference?
I started thinking the other day if he would approve of these things that we call data conferences. I don’t think that he would. I don’t speak for God, and I don’t claim to know the mind of God. But in reading the bible, I do think we need to […]