Search by tag «SchoolLess»
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Sloth Daddy
Right Back at You, Tiger Mother
“Once you start down that road—race to the top, race to nowhere, go, go, go!—it’s night near impossible to reverse course.”
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Not Too Optimistic
Assessing “The Project” Now & Into the Future
“Most people should not be home schooled, my dad says, and I agree.”
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I’m Not Dostoevsky
On Wallowing, Executive Dysfunction, & Other Mishigas
"I am not a sick man. I am not a spiteful man. I am not an unpleasant man. My liver, as far as I know, is in excellent health."
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The Glint of Light
Truth, Expectation, & the Pursuit of Happiness
“Truth can be distorted, limited, irrelevant, meaningless. Truth can be false.”
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All Faith is Autopsy
Reflections After Christmas
“I am both happy and sad—there should be a word for this—when reciting the ‘Mourner’s Kaddish’”.
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In Gifts Begin Responsibilities
Guns, Barney, Ping-Pong
“Enough privileged middle-aged white man angst: why can’t I simply let the children be children?”
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The Rigor
Curriculum Matters & the Risk of “Other”
“I do not focus on what SchoolLess isn’t getting—some of which is loss, some of which is gain—but on what he is getting.”
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Arrested Development
A “Truant’s” Story
“Those are things that I could never have learned at ‘real’ school.”
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