The Teachers’ Lounge

If you have followed my column for any length of time, you probably know I am an unapologetic critic of America’s public school systems. My data-informed musings about the persistent, systematic failure of our nation’s schools are foundational to much of my writing.

The Chosen Ones

5 months. It has been 5 months since the unthinkable happened. The creators of the Walking Dead teamed up with George Orwell and Dean Koontz and wrote a book about a virus that took over a globe.

Focus on What Matters

The academic condition of students in America is alarming. There are four million 4th graders in the United States. Three million or 75% of them cannot read proficiently.

National Parents’ Day: July 26

Finally, a day to celebrate parents of all kinds! It takes a certain willingness to choose to become a parent; a knowing that the life you are living will be forever changed. And the parents in Forney ISD are a pretty special collection.

Not here….Yet

I love education and take teaching human beings seriously. The social consequences of academic failure are very costly, especially for the disabled and minority learners.

Ripe Things Get Picked

He knew it was getting real when they went after his girlfriend. The law is like that. They hit you in your soft underbelly where it hurts the most. He’d half been expecting such a reaction, however. They’d gone after many of his friends and most of his co-workers.

Magic Spray

“How did I get here?” Surely, that’s something you’ve asked yourself a time or two lately. Whether you look up one day and realize half a century whizzed by, or whether you just can’t fathom the luck, or the misfortune, that has fallen into your lap, we all question reality at times.

Time for the United Front

The current climate in the United States is showing the nation perspectives of life that many may have not experienced or even considered. Some of these perspectives may be hard to see, acknowledge or imagine they are real, even though they happen every day somewhere in the United States.

A Change in Direction?

It seems the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases in Texas and the rest of the nation has caused education administrators to rethink what school is going to look like in the Fall.

Sandcastles in a High Tide

There are infinite types of sickness, loosely defined as the act of being affected by illness, physical or mental. Sick can run the gamut from needing to take a day off after working in the hot sun too long to gathering the wagons and making your last wishes known. It is sniffles.