Archive for December, 2009
Another View on Leach and Texas Tech
James Gang helps Texas Tech get revenge on Leach – Matt Hayes – College Football – Sporting News That’ll teach Mike Leach to embarrass Texas Tech University during contract negotiations. This is the definition of payback, everyone. Nearly a year after the fact. The record will show that Leach, Tech’s unorthodox yet highly successful coach, [...]
Do you think he’ll write a book on successful management techniques?
Texas Tech head coach suspended The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that Leach locked sophomore receiver Adam James in a closet because he thought the player was faking a concussion. I’m really having problems envisioning the scene. Not the getting the kid into the closet part but what the other adults at the scene were doing. Did [...]
Because most people can still master the material even if they don’t under a third of it…
Kerrville Daily Times Kerrville Independent School District officially supports the six plaintiff districts in claiming that commissioner Robert Scott is overreaching in his interpretation of a recently enacted law against minimum grades. Minimum grading policies are the practice of giving failing students at least 50 percent on report cards regardless of whether a student’s cumulative [...]
Now why are people worried about homeschoolers?
Recently, there’s been another article on the need to regulate homeschoolers. As best as most homeschoolers can figure out, it’s because we don’t think like everyone else and are passing that trait on to our children. See, it’s not about preventing harm, it’s about control and we all know how well that turns out education [...]