Fw: Fw: Dead Horses

[JaKay Greer <irismedia@JUNO.COM>]

Received this from my momma this morning.
With all that is going on in education--I thought it was accurate.

JaKay Greer, Teacher-Librarian
Powell Valley Grade School
Kelly Creek Elementary School
Gresham, OR
irismedia@juno.com

> > > > The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on
>> > > from generation to generation, says that when you
>> > > discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best
>> > > strategy is to dismount.
>> > >
>> > >  In modern education and government, however, a whole
>> > > range of far more advanced strategies are often
>> > > employed, such as:-
>> > >
>> > >   1. Buying a stronger whip.
>> > >   2. Changing Riders.
>> > >   3. Threatening the horse with termination.
>> > >   4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
>> > >   5. Arranging to visit other countries to see how
>> > > others ride dead horses.
>> > >   6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be
>> > > included.
>> > >   7. Re-classifying the dead horse as "living,
>> > > impaired".
>> > >   8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead
>> > > horse.
>> > >   9. Harnessing several dead horses together to
>> > > increase the speed.
>> > >  10. Providing additional funding and/or training to
>> > > increase the dead horse's performance.
>> > >  11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter
>> > > riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
>> > >  12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to
>> > > be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and
>> > > therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom
>> > > line of the economy than do some other horses.
>> > >  13. Re-writing the expected performance requirements
>> > > for all horses.
>> > >  14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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