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Extra Sleep!!!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lou, our \u201crehab-foster\u201d dog gave us a present this morning.  He slept until eight.  And the rest of our \u201cpack\u201d slept in as well, so we actually all got in up in daylight for the first time in a couple on months.  Lou is recovering from two broken legs and a displaced hip, so a big part of his rehab is our morning walk.  We started at a few hundred feet, and worked up to over a mile in the mornings.  And since Lou (and the rest of our crew) are generally early birds, most of our walks have been pre-dawn strolls through the dark byways of Pataskala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this morning we got to actually see the neighborhood on our stroll.  It\u2019s a \u201cpre-snow\u201d morning, with a few inches predicted before the end of the day.  The snow is already falling, and there is a gray sky, with the gray and dark houses blending into the landscape.  It\u2019s like the town s getting ready.  For some that\u2019s actually true:  there are several neighbors who make a living plowing driveways and parking lots out.  They are quietly getting their trucks and supplies ready \u2013 today will be a workday for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a \u201cworking class\u201d town.  Morning rush hour here is between 5:30 and 7:00 \u2013 folks working the early shift.  Sure there\u2019s nine to fivers living here as well, and a lot of them are working from home here in COVID world.  But the majority in this town are \u201cpunching a clock\u201d somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s a lot of respect for work, for what Sherrod Brown, our Senator from Ohio, calls \u201cthe dignity of work\u201d.  And to further quote Sherrod, Pataskala is a town where folks take a \u201cshower after work,\u201d not before.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching in Pataskala<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I was a teacher at the local school here for thirty-six years.  When I first got a job at Watkins Memorial High School, I decided to live in the town where I worked.  That, by the way, is a big decision for a teacher.  If you live where you work, you are immersed in the \u201cjob\u201d.  Going to the grocery store, getting a haircut, buying parts at the auto store (there are four within two miles) you always see parents and students.  It was normal to have a parent\/teacher conference between the Chinese vegetables and the Taco section at Krogers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other teachers make a choice to maintain a more private life.  They live outside the district, so they can have a little more anonymity in their lives.   Either choice is correct, but for me, to quote an old teaching friend \u2013 \u201cYou\u2019re either on the bus, or off the bus\u201d.  I was on the bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally folks in Pataskala respect the work that teachers do with their kids.  And they also respect the work it took to become a teacher.  Most understand what a college education costs, the effort it requires, and the choices \u201cnot made\u201d to finish a degree.  A lot of the time it wasn\u2019t just \u201cMr. Dahlman\u201d from the kids, it was \u201cMr. Dahlman\u201d from the parents as well.  Even though the nameplate on my desk clearly said \u201cMarty Dahlman\u201d, it\u2019s how people considered education and teachers, with respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dis-Respect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There is a controversial editorial in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> <\/em>this week about Dr. Jill Biden.  Of course that\u2019s President-Elect Biden\u2019s wife, and she\u2019s an educator, a schoolteacher who went on to earn a doctorate in education.  She now teaches in college, instructing the next generation of teachers how to educate our kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Epstein is an instructor and lecturer at Northwestern University.  He wrote the opinion piece demanding that Dr. Biden \u201cdrop\u201d the \u201cdoctor\u201d.  She\u2019s not a \u201cmedical doctor\u201d and she hasn\u2019t \u201cdelivered a baby\u201d he said.  And Epstein makes his demand in as condescending a manner possible, even addressing Dr. Biden as \u201ckiddo,\u201d as if somehow she\u2019s kidding everyone about her credentials.  \u201cShe is married to the President, she should be happy being \u2018Mrs.\u2019 Biden\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be easy to push Epstein off as a \u201cdisgruntled\u201d educator.  He is one of the few who made a career teaching at the University level without even earning a Master\u2019s degree.  Most public school teachers these days have one of those, even me.  So it\u2019s likely that there\u2019s a big \u201cchip on his shoulder\u201d about the work he didn\u2019t bother to do, earning the doctorate that is standard for college level professorships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Truth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But I think he\u2019s taking a side on a larger point, one that fits in with our current political divide.  Education, particularly higher education, is based in research and discovering facts.  Whether it\u2019s getting an advanced degree in Medicine or Chemistry or Education or English Literature:  it\u2019s about researching observable facts and drawing conclusions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we live in a \u201cpost-fact, post-truth\u201d world.  Our President has spent the entire last year telling us the \u201cfact\u201d that the election is fraudulent \u2013 even though it\u2019s not.  Even the simple fact of wearing a mask in public to reduce the spread of COVID is debated. We have a third of our nation that denies \u201cestablished facts\u201d, from the established media to the established Universities.  So if they deny those facts, they definitely need to deny the \u201chonor and effort\u201d required for success in that establishment.  What\u2019s a doctorate in anything if \u201cwe don\u2019t believe in it\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Epstein\u2019s opinion is more than just about the “Dr.” before Jill Biden’s name. He\u2019s highlighted our nation\u2019s disrespect for \u201ctruth\u201d and those who offer it. And that fits right in with where we are today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The snow is falling fast, more than an inch as a write this essay.  Some doctor in meteorology figured all of that out, and let the northeastern part of the US know that it\u2019s big storm, with lots of snow coming.  We can deny that truth, but it still piles up at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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