Tonight’s school board meeting: 6 p.m. – 11:30. If you factor in commuting time, we’ll call it 6 hours. Which makes it even more surprising that we have 13 people who have applied for the vacant school board seat. All hail the applicants, all glory unto them for their willingness to serve! I may be […]
The Un-American Achievement Read More »
Heh. West Cook News is the local rightwing ‘paper,’ I think? They did a piece on my commencement speech, and you could do a fascinating analysis on what they chose to highlight from my bio (I wrote erotica, oh noes!), and what they chose to highlight from the speech (ending, without comment, on the bit
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I hadn’t quite realized until I got to campus that this was going to be a speech to the largest group of people I’d ever speechified to — about six thousand, I think, given the size of the graduating class and all the family in attendance. My previous largest audience speech was probably the Wiscon
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A packed church at my father-in-law’s memorial service today — there were hundreds of people in attendance. Ron was tremendously appreciated by his community. Appreciated and very much loved. More soon, I imagine. For now, we’re getting ready to head up to San Francisco for our midnight flight (with thanks to Jed for driving, as
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Hanging quietly at Jed’s so far today, recovering from middle-of-the-night travel. Have drafted my commencement speech that I’m giving at OPRF on Sunday (after a red-eye flight back, oof, hope I can manage a nap Sunday morning once we get home), and sent it off to the superintendent to see what he thinks. I might
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School board tonight, 6:30 – 9:15, just under 3 hours. I joined remotely, as I’m attending Wiscon in Madison this weekend. I’m very sorry to note that one of our board members, Kebreab Henry, has had to step off the board due to family reasons. I’ll just publicly say that Kebreab has been a pleasure
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Excited about the development of this program — college is not the only fulfilling career path, and we want our students to have a host of great options after high school! The school was already working on this before I joined the board, but I was very happy to lend my enthusiastic support. https://www.oprfhs.org/news-detail/~board/home/post/first-oprfhs-graduates-to-earn-college-and-career-pathways-endorsement-from-the-state?fbclid=IwAR3PWsON8LuYOPmjJ6X8aXrHUIZTaA_l6vqWd82zF9d7OwLl2MvHE7Q8_HU
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Slightly bleary, but not bad for the end of a long day. School board meeting 6:30-10:30, 4 hrs.
Not Bad For a Long Day Read More »
I wasn’t able to attend the groundbreaking, but I’m pleased with the work we did to help this happen. A great collaboration with the Park District.
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Statement I made at the board meeting last night, addressing one of the concerns that had been brought up: ***** I want to speak to the concern that we’re spending a significant amount of money on physical education, rather than on academics, as if the two are in opposition. As some of you know, I’m
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