What happens when Administration goes unchecked...

Video: Arm the Teachers or Bulletproof the Books

Monty Python - Arguement Clinic

2 min 30 sec - Apr 8, 2006
 

Mathematically Correct is the informal, nationwide organization that fights the Establishment
on behalf of sanity and quality in math education.

David Gelernter, NY Post

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."

Kahlil Gibran

"A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness."

Mother Teresa

"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left." -

Yogi Berra

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." -

Dave Barry

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."

-- Bill Gates

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

-- Henry Mencken

"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not."

-- Harry Truman

“Integrity is doing the right thing even if nobody is watching.”

Jim Stovall

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

-- Voltaire

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

Colin Powell

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

C.S. Lewis

Publicity

Example: The DCSpost.com received some welcomed publicity when Prairie Vale banned the website.

The first recorded spam was sent out by a law firm.
 

Fact or Fiction ?
An ostrich will bury its head in the sand at the sign of danger.

Fiction
Only a board member will bury its head.

Revision
...and possibly a few others.
 

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

proactive

Pronunciation: (")prO-'ak-tiv
Function: adjective
1 [1pro-] : relating to, caused by, or being interference between previous learning and the recall or performance of later learning <proactive inhibition of memory>
2 [2pro- + reactive] : acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes
- pro·ac·tive·ly adverb

Example: Superintendent follows safety updates on Prairie Vale with thorough audit of all schools and implements upgrades before children get hurt.
 

Separatist

Pronunciation: 'se-p(&-)r&-tist, 'se-p&-"rA-
Function: noun
: one that favors separatism : as a capitalized : one of a group of 16th and 17th century English Protestants preferring to separate from rather than to reform the Church of England b : an advocate of independence or autonomy for a part of a political unit (as a nation) c : an advocate of racial or cultural separation
- separatist adjective

Example: It would seem that some schools would rather operate on their own than operate as a district.

Pronunciation: 'ne-p&-"ti-z&m
Function: noun
Etymology: French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from nepote nephew, from Latin nepot-, nepos grandson, nephew -- more at NEPHEW
: favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship

Example: Do we really need to go there?

Role Model

Function: noun
: a person whose behavior in a particular role is imitated by others

Example: Jessica Mackiewicz

Could you recognize a board member in public?

Pronunciation: 'sen-'s^r
Function: verb
Etymology: cen·sored; cen·sor·ing
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news>; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable

Example: When a school board suppresses topics of conversation.

Denial

Pronunciation: di-'nI(-&)l, dE-
Function: noun
1 : refusal to satisfy a request or desire
2 a (1) : refusal to admit the truth or reality (as of a statement or charge) (2) : assertion that an allegation is false b : refusal to acknowledge a person or a thing : DISAVOWAL
3 : the opposing by the defendant of an allegation of the opposite party in a lawsuit
4 : SELF-DENIAL
5 : negation in logic
6 : a psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality
- in denial : refusing to admit the truth or reality of something unpleasant <a patient in denial about his health problems>

Example: There is no doubt that the school board is in denial after allowing time after time certain prinicipals' extravagant purchases (ie leather couch, hiring an interior decorator).

Hypocrite
 
Pronunciation: 'hi-p&-"krit
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritEs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

Example: When a school’s administration refuses to talk about a teacher or student due to legal and privacy issues but allows a school employee to talk publicly about the marital status of a teacher and three months later the same employee publicly talks about the financial status of a Deer Creek Patron.

Pronunciation: 'nän-'se-kw&-t&r also -"tur
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, it does not follow
1 : an inference that does not follow from the premises; specifically : a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent
2 : a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said

Example: When a person directly presents a problem to the school district only to be told they don’t address anonymous accusations.

Oops

Variant(s): or whoops also woops /'(w)u(&)ps/

Function: interjection -- used typically to express mild apology, surprise, or dismay

Example: Oops. DCSpost.com made a mistake. Not so hard to admit. Maybe others can follow our lead.

Example: Jumbo Shrimp, Intelligent Board Member, Proactive Superintendent