chicagodads

[Editor’s note: Even though I’m taking semi-holidays, through this week at least I’ll be alternating posts here and at my home blog, Left Cheek. So please read there every day you don’t find anything new here.]

I was trying to find the best way to recap what I’ve been thinking about in terms of schooling, but I think that - in essence and in brevity - laurel said it best already: Every school is different. Pretty much everything that I wanted to say in the posts was said in the comments in one way or another, so I didn’t want to rehash that so much. (I did forget to add this story from the Tribune, which mentioned that researchers found there was no difference in test scores between charter and neighborhood high schools even though charter schools had half the amount of impoverished kids and significantly fewer special needs and English as a Second Language students.)

I need to take a semi-break from blogging for a bit. At least on this site. The funny part is, the number of visitors to this site have once again gone up, just as they were starting to the last time I had a blogging slow-down (which, ironically, was because my computer was in the shop).

For now, I’ve got four long-form works that I want to concentrate on for the next two weeks at least. I’ll intersperse with short posts as I find interesting stuff (and there’s a couple in the pipes already). And hopefully I’ll find more time to visit your posts as time allows. A lot of interesting stuff going on with many of the writers here at Today (which I find refreshing, to be honest).