I was very glad to read your son is ok.

Thanks for sharing, I’ll take a look!

Ah thank you Chris, I really appreciate the thoughtful read — and your tasteful last name!

My hunch is that Alpha School is deliberately trying to seduce notable education commentators by giving them (possibly paid) Potemkin village tours. I saw this happen a lot when I worked at NewSchools, politicians and billionaires would be paraded around the hottest charter school of the moment.

Man, do I feel seen.

Oh how beautiful, and I love this structure. I often look for the hidden beauty in bureaucracy, as odd as that sounds.

Platform Purity Olympics, that is perfect.

No no, it’s “help”

I did and am glad you linked to it here, thank you! You got that right regarding the political posture of the leagues.

Possibly but I highly doubt it, at least one of ‘em had John Brown as his avatar. I get the frustration and can even understand those who want to advocate for direct confrontation (Malcolm X did too). Just don’t do it in my timeline.

Would require greater self-awareness