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Back Coaching for Fun: Water Beetles to the Rescue!

Most of the stuff you hear about parents and youth sports is not particularly positive.  I have had my share of very unsatisfying experiences with parents without perspective (PWPs).   This is the cult of parents who believe their son or daughter is destined to such greatness that they have already drawn up floor plans for […]

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Education Reform: Aesop Warns of Republican Tomfoolery

Watching the Republicans go after public education in Michigan reminds me of one of Aesop’s more obscure, but profoundly important, fables . For some reason this fable was never included in any of the many collections of the old Greek’s stories. I ran across it some years ago when I was digging around the stacks […]

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