* Using my Yale Divinity School Credentials (M. Div. '80) to Protest Cruelty to Children, Especially the "Late Bloomers."

America's School Boards: 

Look into Your Hearts
and 
Weep in Shame

I have never used my Yale Divinity School degree in the last 32 years since it was awarded in 1980, except at funerals and weddings.

I thought I would go to my grave having not found a "cause"  which needed  that degree.

And now that "cause" is clear to me after retiring from twenty-five years as a Vermont public school teacher:

      Children, especially “late bloomers” like myself,  who are being harmed by the cruelty of “standardized testing” need a champion, one whose credentials are not intimidated by the phonies  who run the U.S. Department of Education’s  “Race to the Top”, which tramples on those children every time it forces those kids to take a standardized test and has the unmitigated gall to compare, analyze and publish  those kids and their “so called “achievements”  with other kids around the nation of the same age and grade level who take the test.