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 […]
Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
This is another huge and positive development for parental rights. This restores a parent’s ability to speak with their own children about sensitive matters without input from public schools. No more hidden libraries. No more questions about student pronouns. No more boys in girls bathrooms. No more conversations where students […]
Today, The Trump Administration Signs Executive Order For States to Expand School Choice
On the eve of Tennessee’s school voucher bill (Tennessee Education Freedom Act) moving to the Tennessee House and Senate floors Thursday, President Trump has signed an executive order to free-up federal tax dollars for state’s which provide school choice options. Again, I have no idea how the vote will go […]
TN School Voucher News and a Presidential Endorsement by Donald Trump
I really didn’t anticipate so much blog time to be dedicated to the voucher bill(Education Freedom Act) which is currently part of this week’s called session of the Tennessee Legislature. What we are witnessing are Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature valiantly trying to free students and their families from failing […]
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 […]