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I served as a public school superintendent in Texas for 17 of my 40 years in education.  As the national, state and local debate regarding "how to improve our schools" rages in a time of economic uncertainty and political polarization I am moved to enter the fray.  I shall be candid and rely on close to 40 years of knowledge and experience in this most unique and greatest of all American experiments:  educating every child.  There is risk in this.  So be it.  My motivation is to empower, not enrage, but I shall not be fearful of power or tradition.

I am blind in one eye, hence my moniker, but believe that my vision for public schools is in no way impaired.  Please feel free to interact, join, follow and enter the dialog!

Footnote:  About my blogs

I write and post to three blogs: 


One-Eyed Bob is my home base where I discuss education and politics.  I am proud that I have won multiple awards from AASA for OEB and have a far-ranging audience.  I even occasionally review a movie or sound off on some current event so it is not just education talk.


One-eyed Bob on God is brand spanking new.  My faith has been shaky recently and I have been looking at what the theists, atheists, and the anti-theists have to say. I will put all that in one new blog.


My oldest blog and the one I have been most proud to write is Tardy Belle.  Yes, I am the author of Tardy Belle under the pseudonym Eileen Good.  The picture of Eileen on the blog is actually of my mother.  I began Tardy Belle as a public school superintendent.  If I had something that I felt really needed to be said and knew that it was not safe for me as a school superintendent to say, I wrote as Eileen and posted on Tardy Belle.  In this neck of Texas most folks are ultra conservative and have never even talked to a progressive.  While I was a superintendent all my progressive rants were posted by Eileen Good on Tardy Belle.  If you have read or followed Tardy Belle and feel deceived or betrayed I am truly sorry.  Admittedly I wrote on Tardy Belle out of fear of reprisal.  No more.  All such entries now appear on one-eyed bob and I do not intend to post to Tardy Belle again, unless of course circumstances demand it.  I will begin to move some of “Eileen’s” posts to one-eyed bob as the spirit moves me.  I will leave all the posts on Tardy Belle there for your perusal now that I have “come out.”  Eileen Good had a wonderful voice for me to assume and I shall miss her:

Thank you one and all for reading my blogs.  I love to write them and love your feedback.

Bob