Something Else (Davey's Crayons)
It wasn't that I couldn't color well that I didn't win the weekly coloring contest in my third grade class. It was that I couldn't color as well as Davey Gordon. In fact, none of us could. He had a technique far beyond any of ours and one that I once was made fun of for trying to mimic. On that one embarrassing occasion, I had done my best at making my work look almost exactly like his. In this instance as well as all others, it was obvious that Davey's artwork was better tha
Something Else (Another Report Card)
As my husband read the Sunday paper earlier this morning, he reported out loud to me the results of the local districts' school report cards as ranked by the state. I could see the grades scrawled in bright red across the front page of our hometown paper. I listened quietly but shook my head as he called out each school, criteria and grade. Why did I disagree on what he read? Lots of reasons. I MEAN LOTS! I'll start with the concept of a letter grade being given to a school a
