Dear Mayor Dean, Congratulations of succeeding in your re-election effort. Of course, it really wasn't much of a surprise, for you had accomplished your goal of squashing serious competition months ago, but you were successful in obtaining a second term and while I may question that strategy, we have to move on from here as... Continue Reading →
Is MNPS Too Large to Succeed or Too Big to Fail?
My wife Kay and I were having a conversation yesterday about school closings after another day of dealing with our kids out of school. “Why is it,” she asked after hearing that the main reason for the closing was a few distant areas which received heavy snow while most of Nashville didn’t, “…why is it... Continue Reading →
Alert the Media–I agree with Gail Kerr
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I haven’t always been a fan of Gail Kerr, columnist and political propagandist for the Tennessean. And yet, in a shocking turn of events, this morning’s column was one that I agreed with. She wrote: It may be time for the appeals court to look inside the Nashville... Continue Reading →
Custodian or Cleaning Service?
cus-to-di-an [kuh-stoh-dee-uhn] -noun 1. a person who has custody; keeper; guardian 2. a person entrusted with guarding or maintaining a property; janitor. This past Tuesday, under cover of a discussion of the budget for 2011, the Metro Nashville School Board made a major decision of policy related to the care and operation of our schools.... Continue Reading →
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness of Privatization
There should be no doubt by now that Nashville is ground zero for the privatization of public services and functions, and during the past 40 years of life in this city, I have seen the rise of the belief that privatization is the solution for all of our ills. So, when Jesse Register and the... Continue Reading →
A Bit of a Difference
Jaime Sarrio does a nice job reviewing the first year of Dr. Jesse Register’s tenure as the Superintendent of Schools for Metro Nashville. What a difference a couple of years makes, for it wasn’t that long ago that we were struggling under leadership that was arrogant, disconnected, and bouncing from program to program in desperation... Continue Reading →
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