Bird Droppings July 16, 2012 High Stakes Testing and or Inspection does it work?   About four years back we spent several months getting ready for a peer review, actually it is called a GAPPS Review. About the same time you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and End of Course…

Bird Droppings July 15, 2012 Can I teach myself or am I even allowed?   “There is then, nothing final about a logical rendering of experience. Its value is not contained in itself; its significance is that of standpoint, outlook, and method. It intervenes between the more casual, tentative, and roundabout experiences of the past,…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2012 Do children deserve more?               I drove up to North Georgia with my son a few weeks past. I needed to meet with Dr. Hilton Smith about some material relating to my dissertation and to pick up a large quantity of rats and mice for my oldest sons hobby…

Bird Droppings July 12, 2012 I wonder if you can get moon burn?   Last night just before heading in I sat on the back porch watching hummingbirds get in a few more sips of nectar from the feeders and listening to tree frogs begin their nightly chorus. As I stood outside I noticed high…

Bird Droppings July 11, 2012 Is religion what you make of it?   “A poor devotee points to the sky and says, ‘God is up there.’ An average devotee says, ‘God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master.’ The best devotee says, ‘God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.’”…

Bird Droppings July 10, 2012 Why are there two Standing Bears?   I was going through my library of books over the weekend looking for additional references for my dissertation and found this copy from 1972 of The Ponca Chiefs. The following quote is from a court room dialogue of the first time legally Native…

Bird Droppings July 8, 2012 Can we be about healing?   “People cannot know how sacred power, or medicine truly works, bit almost every Native American knows something of its ways. Often seen as a mysterious force that is fluid, transmissible and important malleable, sacred power can be manipulated by those who possess it –…

Bird Droppings July 7, 2012 Some might think that curriculum is sacred   I took a one day respite from writing and electronic devices yesterday traveling to Bennettsville SC., to see my son, daughter in law and future grandbaby. Getting back I needed to shift gears and get back into my academic mindset and on…

Bird Droppings July 5, 2012 What is normal?   “Normality in fact has nothing to do with statistics. It refers to a norm, a model of perfection, an example to be followed. It indicates what we should be. Normality is therefore something to strive for, something at which to aim, it is not what most…

Bird droppings July 4, 2012 Do we learn from a ripple or a wave?               I will spend most of the morning digging and planting, transplanting and repotting various flowers and herbs in our yard and also cutting grass now that we have had some rain. I have several in dire need of planting…