Non Rigorous Learning Styles

"The only thing that interferes with my learning
is my education."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind
of thinking we used when we created them."

Yeah Yeah Yeah: Einstein being a wise-guy again.
Reducing. Over simplifying. Reducing.  IT's more
complicated than that, we could argue.

For years I've told myself  that I'm the only one
around here  who sees how smart, savvy, witty,
winsome, wise-guy irreverent, & acutely intelligent
our dillar-a-dollar scholars are.  Individually and
OMG: collectively.

Ok: you may see their devotion to service & work
programmatics, cool and green and politically
correct on the radical side: their projects, posters &
capstone  experiences . I'll grant you that.  You can
have all that.

I've  devised a series of Work Options so I can respond
with reckless abandon & unbridled  enthusiasm because
I don't  grade and I don't correct and have no grade-gun
ex-officious authority to force compliance which eliminates
brown-nosing on both sides of the desk and also strips  the
black plastic off the classroom strawberry patch:  weeds
galore, a riot of green-grow-the-rushes-ho and & not just
fair-to-middling disciplinary dangle berries merging thru
the holes which is what all you other teachers get--on-task,
rigorous and regulated by measurable aims, and rubric-
assessed outcomes..  We probably could argue about that.

I'm knocked back on my heels by the  play and resource
of intelligence when "anarchy" and "chaos" are structured-in
to mother some inventiveness.

Local Food.

It don't go by the book so much, and curls the hairs on the
back of my stiff-necked vestigial SACS-y professionalism
but I love it, always operating on the edge of heresy &
indefensible ludic delight  Joy to the whirl. All you boys
and girls.

Ridiculous to the savvy. Offensive to the conscientious.
Stalwart pioneering best I can.  Not for every body.