Posted on May 25, 2011
My Commencement Speech
This post is intended for graduating high school seniors and the parents of graduating high school seniors. You know who you are. Read More
Posted on March 23, 2011
Serenity now!
I’ve been meaning to write something about Firefly for years, but for one reason or another, I’ve never managed to get around to actually doing it. But, since it’s been a topic in the news lately thanks to Nathan Fillion stirring up the fanboys beyond all reason, I thought I’d finally take a few minutes and write something up about why Firefly was such a great show…and why it was doomed to fail from the start. Read More
Posted on February 16, 2011
‘Greater than good’ news at BISD? Not really.
This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise.
Remember when the National Center for Educational Achievement recently placed more than half of BISD’s campuses on their “Higher Performing Schools” list? If not, we wrote about it here.
That was the good news.
The “greater than good” news is that – according to Jessie Haynes – the NCEA has, for unknown reasons, had a change of heart and has decided to start handing out Higher Performing School recognitions like sticky candy from a suspicious guy in an unmarked van who wears a trenchcoat in the summertime and likes to hang around playgrounds, muttering to himself.
Yeah. It’s like that. Read More
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