{"id":151,"date":"2008-11-06T23:32:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T06:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-11-06T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T06:33:49","slug":"crawling-down-the-corridor-of-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Crawling Down The Corridor of Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3183\/3009836382_f7921d519c.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oops. I was typing up some notes about a meeting that got a bit heated today and my email began to spin out of control. 1400 words later, I came to. My writing got a little loopy at the end. Thought I&#8217;d share the final conclusion as a testament to the email&#8217;s hand-to-forehead inducing feeling of &#8220;Oh god, why did I type that?&#8221; and, even worse, &#8220;Oh god, why did I click &#8216;Send&#8217; on that?&#8221; Even without providing specific context, I think you&#8217;ll get it [mildly edited to remove non-Travis names]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0p.p.s. Last part, I promise. Remembering Travis get frustrated over scheduling decisions back in July, I think it&#8217;s important for our group as a whole to step back and look at how different are our proposals from the status quo? Are we really thinking that far outside the box? I realize that data in general feels like a very in-the-box-and-that&#8217;s-a-good-thing kind of issue, but is this the route towards truly turning around a school? Travis&#8217; challenge back to the campus was to really push ourselves to look beyond the confines of what Local District Seven conditioned us to accept. We don&#8217;t need to look for what will do. We need to paint the god damn Sistine Chapel on the grass in the senior quad. We need to invoke &#8220;A Love Supreme&#8221; into rhetoric of school policy.We need to &#8220;Sunset Boulevard&#8221; our daily practices and let all of our students whisper that they&#8217;re ready for their (academic) close up. 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