• No one ever calls shotgun when they are boading a school bus.
  • If I live to be 100, my 100th birthday will fall on a Saturday. That's a pretty good incentive to stay alive 70 more years.
  • I'm pretty sure at some point I will be considered too old to be drinking Mountain Dew. I'm not sure what I'll drink when that day comes.

The Hidden Cost of School Accountability

It’s a script fit for Hollywood, or at least a Lifetime Network movie of the week. A talented principal comes into a struggling inner-city school and transforms it into one of the best schools in the state.
The star of this “underdog overcomes the odds” story is Janet Ham, Principal of Maplewood Elementary School in Indianapolis. [...]