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JJ Ross
Thinking Parents and Power of Story rule the past, present AND future ... and a proud member for 4 years 11 weeks
Retired public education policy analyst and administrator, joyfully unschooling two as quirky bibliophiles and musical theatre buffs, nonpartisan and sick of the rhetoric, ready for real solutions no matter WHO gets the credit; prone to see infinite shades of grey and find them all fascinating; longtime north Florida college town resident; Thinking Parent, co-creator of the nascent Cocking a Snook blog to skewer School posturing as Education; provocative independent contributor to the National Home Education Network forums; writer of (very) irregular "Ask MisEducation" commentary for ParentDirectedEducation.My Latest Post:
Flash! WIMBLEDON WIDGET WOES: Intelligent Individuals OutRank Factory Robots!
So Standardized School is the opposite of World-Class Education, not its divine incarnation? Good then. Let's hear no more about the necessary sacrifice of consigning all children to one-dimensional forehand factories for high-priced, high-stakes stamping into quality-controlled widgets, by has-been and never-were corporate charismatics and labor union drones. Do you know what words of advice inspire the greatest players in the world as they enter Centre Court for Wimbledon, to show what they know and can do?
"If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. . ." -- by Rudyard Kipling.IF we inscribed this on every standardized test booklet for every child our Congressional Coaches promise never to leave behind languishing in the locker room, IF we took it to heart ourselves, then we still might not win 'em all but maybe we could stop feeling like such losers? I've long called test score mania (in both triumph and disaster) the two-edged sword, but "two-edged imposter" could work even better, might at least shut up the most rigid standard skunks -- clever fellow Kipling.
My Recent Comments:
- 1. Re: The Meme Of The Moment - Your NPR Name... (on The Meme Of The Moment - Your NPR Name)
- 2. Re: The Meme Of The Moment - Your NPR Name... (on The Meme Of The Moment - Your NPR Name)
- 3. Who Needs Media -- I Know Who She Is!... (on Sarah Palin : A lipsticked pitbull that's a scaredy cat with the press)
- 4. Loved Your RNC Interview Video... (on $300,000 outfit, private jets but no elitism)
- 5. Obama Said... (on $300,000 outfit, private jets but no elitism)
- 6. No kidding, Let's Talk Freedom... (on Republicans shocked...SHOCKED...by Palin's pregnant teen daughter)
- 7. But From a Policy POV... (on $300,000 outfit, private jets but no elitism)
- 8. What Real Thinking Moms Think... (on What was McCain thinking? He should have picked Christine Todd-Whitman!)
- 9. Ooh, Virginia!... (on Yo-Yo's Youthful "Brainy Counterculture Vibe" Good for Homeschooling and America)
- 10. Actually, I already laid out... (on Student Star Chamber Convenes on Public U. Campus to Punish Catholic Protester)
