I grow a combination of hybrid and heirloom vegetables. Hybrids are a cross between two varieties which can help plants be stronger, more productive, and disease resistant. Hybrids rely on cross pollination and are not genetically modified. Heirlooms are fun to grow, but they can suffer greatly from disease. They […]
Part II of School Community Gardens: Creating Student Buy-In and Finding Reputable Seed Resources
There is not better time in human history to find great seed collections for your garden. I recommend starting with simply varieties. KISS (keep it simple stupid) is how we need to garden. If it gets complicated, folks will lose interest, and then you will end up with a big […]
Part I of School Community Gardens: The Massive Benefits of Gardening for Students
Community gardens provide infinite possibilities to teach the curriculum, and I mean infinite. As I think back on my best learning experiences, almost all were through a non-traditional approach. This means that I was doing something or studying something that didn’t fit normal instructional delivery methods or the topic was […]
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 […]
TSSAA Votes 12-0 to Deny Transfer Rule
Honestly, I am a little surprised by this. Today’s decision doesn’t affect our family, but I have followed this process(to adopt or to deny a new rule) passively for the past year or so. The current rule is antiquated. Basically, unless a Tennessee high school athlete changes their residence and […]
Highly Successful Habits of New Distance Runners and Their Families
I get asked a lot about recommendations for middle distance school runners. We have made plenty of mistakes and done plenty right. Here is some of what we have learned. Generally, my answer is to keep it fun. Unless your child has a strong genetic component(and that is not uncommon) […]
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 […]
***Breaking News*** The Education Freedom Scholarship Act Has Cleared The Tennessee General Assembly
In a landmark vote, both the House and Senate of the State of Tennessee have passed The Education Freedom Scholarship Act. The monopoly of public schools has been broken. School vouchers are just one signature by the Governor(Bill Lee) from being signed into law. I will have more later. For […]