The third and final installment in the National Council of Thanksgiving Quality (NCTQ) advisories offers helpful advice about how to continue rating your own Thanksgiving dinner (and that of your neighbors).
And don’t forget the Pledge:
Our Pledge (Talking Turkey):
At NCTQ, we will continue to publish reports that represent the terrible quality of your family’s Thanksgiving Dinner. We will continue to support and publish research on standards and best practices for Thanksgiving Dinner, and we will work to impose those standards on your family. We will use whatever research we can find or create to forward these goals. We will lobby politicians and corporate sponsors to achieve our ends. We seek to standardize all Thanksgiving Dinners, so all US families can be sure they are presenting the best Thanksgiving Dinner for their children. We will also create and support private corporations that will derive enormous profits from delivering a high-quality Thanksgiving Dinner to your family. We will not rest until every child has the high-quality Thanksgiving Dinner he or she deserves.
When you hear about NCTQ, think TURKEY!!

This is a riot!!! KC
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This is first-rate satire. For convenience, I’m posting
the links to all the parts:
PART ONE:
https://www.anonyme.com/View/eff70660-c9bd-46c4-a03f-c2f3b2b8593e
PART TWO:
https://www.anonyme.com/View/f4fcbab8-d5b2-4e5d-89a7-b740ea23154d
PART THREE:
https://www.anonyme.com/View/dc8c2212-7b95-41f5-afeb-a70fe92649a0
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Diane,
On a holiday set aside to contemplate how blessed we are, it’s good to be able to smile.
Even in the face such such absurd criticism and the frustrating conditions in education, we can be hopeful that reasoned thinkers will prevail.
Thank you for your blog, and for keeping us informed. To quote Randy Newman, “If you paid attention, you’d be worried, to.”
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*too
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Ha..Ha..Ha..Ha! Ha! Ha! It feels so good to laugh!!! I thank my students when they make me laugh! I thank my husband and children when they make me laugh! Thank you so much, Diane, for making me laugh on this Thanksgiving Day! We teachers get so wrapped up in our daily stress that we forget how good it feels to laugh! A great big belly laugh is the best kind!!!
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I recommend a guest “growth” model to help evaluate your dinner. Weigh each guest when they arrive, and of course a post dinner weigh-in for “growth”. If your guests fail to gain (set your target goal) “X” pounds, then you may be deemed an ineffective or possibly developing host(ess). Happy T-Day to all and to all some good growth.
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Bravo! Your post is a perfect add-on to an already perfect post from Diane. I consider my own growth, and use it for my direction in life. I don’t use my growth to consider someone else’s growth. Students’ learning growth should be considered, but not to determine teachers’ growth; only for instructional paths. The reformers are using students to get at teachers. Shame on them!
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We are following the rules Exactingly
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Dark humor for certain
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I must confess astonishment at seeing people miss the rheeal point of this posting.
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A turkey dinner that meets NCTQ standards is only for OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN. When comes to the THEIR OWN CHILDREN, the leaders and enablers of the self-styled “education reform” movement ensure a very different and much higher sort of nutritional fare and standards.
Note the following from Dr. Candace McQueen, formerly the biggest cheerleader for NCTQ Turkey Dinner in Tennessee. Based on a piece entitled “Lipscomb Academy Chief Advocates For NCTQ Turkey Dinner, But Not At Her School.” And referenced on this very blog! A link to this piece and an enlightening thread can be accessed at the link below. However, just take a gander at the following—
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One of Tennessee’s biggest cheerleaders for NCTQ Turkey Dinner has not pushed to adopt that sustenance standard in the private school she now leads.
On an almost weekly basis, Candice McQueen is called on by the state Department of Education to beat back criticism. Last week, it was an Associated Press panel. The week before that, she advocated for NCTQ Turkey Dinner as SCORE released its annual nutrition report card. McQueen testified before the Senate Education Committee during a two day hearing on the standard.
She praises the rigor and the benefits to having Tennessee kids eat the exact same standardized turkey dinner as students in 44 states. So when McQueen assumed a new role over Lipscomb’s private K-12 academy, parents were concerned that NCTQ Turkey Dinner would follow her to campus, according to an open letter sent to families. …
Asked by WPLN why NCTQ Turkey Dinner wouldn’t be served at her school, McQueen referred back to her letter.
“We make decisions about what’s going to be best within the context of our community,” she said. “I would say that’s absolutely what we’re going to do now and for the future.”
Lipscomb would be unusual if it went to NCTQ’s Turkey Dinner standard. Most of Nashville’s private schools blend state and national nutritional standards and don’t use the same standardized turkey dinners as public schools.
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Link: https://dianeravitch.net/2014/03/23/common-core-for-commoners-not-my-school/
¿? I got it all wrong, from beginning to end?
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I assure you that, after having practiced night and day on the never-ending “revisions” to the resumé of “Dr.” Ted Morris, I am fully equipped to…
Oh boy… My bad. That’s what too much CCSS ‘closet’ reading of informational text can do to one’s mind, especially when the lights dim and flicker and the supply of flashlight batteries runs out.
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And reweigh them every ten days. BUT if they miss a goal weight, the window closes for achieving that weight in that time frame.
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My comment is in the wrong spot.
But. . . why are states fighting the criticism instead of finding solutions that work for everyone? For example, progress monitoring with the program NC uses doesn’t work with dual language. But everyone from the state and county level seem so defensive of it. I don’t understand it. Why are they being that way???
Someone please explain it to me.
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As a vegetarian am I going to be forced to eat the turkey? What if I can’t keep it down? OMG what am I going to do??????????????????????
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21st Century Turkey!
Turn those dinners around, by golly.
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