Tag: Test and Die
Sheriff Judd seems to misunderstand his own law. So let’s start over, as serious and collaborative people.
March 27, 2018
The “School Security” law your legislators and Polk Sheriff Grady Judd recently produced swallows itself in fundamental and lethal contradiction. Ideally, all stakeholders would recognize this and simply start over again. Ideally, this time, lawmakers and Judd would seek good faith collaboration with subject matter experts in school operations. But we don’t live in an ideally governed state. Thus, it’s…
We must end the Test-and-Die era, part 1: You can’t untangle mass school shootings from school grades and stress-based education
February 20, 2018
This may end up as a five or six part series. Bear with me. I will get to guns and the sheriff — who has not yet made a formal proposal — in part 3 or 4. I will do so calmly and rationally. But I want to start all of this with a history lesson and a correlation that…