Morris Dancing Misunderestimated - part two.

George W had that famous line, "I think they misunderestimated me." He was also the one who promised "no childrens will be left behind."

Sarah Palin may well be a fine example of the kind of wonderful education product his policies could produce - Palin would have been a product of dad George's education policies though.

Back to Morris Dancing. I would hate to misunderestimate it's potential - after all, look what England achieved with this as their national dance. This got me thinking, maybe there should be a place for Morris Dancing in our National Curriculum. Maybe we could give some unemployed teachers in Canterbury a job designing the curriculum statement for Morris Dancing, and some National Standards for it while they are at it. Seeing as how most of our children are ensconced in new schools all around the country - ie pretty much anywhere but Christchurch - there are going to be plenty of teachers with time on their hands.

So we need a purpose for Morris Dancing, and here are a few that come immediately to mind..

... An energy efficient way to compact the ground after the recent earthquakes

... A way to bring rain to address the inevitable drought that will hit Canterbury some time in the near future

... A way of ensuring the tri-cultural needs of our influx of Morris dancing English immigrants are met

.. A way of ensuring children who are named Morris but don't like being named after a pretty boring model of car now have a reason to feel good about their name

It needs a good slogan to get it off the ground, perhaps something like, "Morris Dancing - it has the bells and you'll get the whistles."

OK, this particular slogan would probably have a "Yeah, right" to the right of it, but I'm sure some unemployed advertising executive from Christchurch could come up with something cool.

I would love to share more of my Morris Dancing motivations with you but I'm running late for my night class with Ken Ring. He's teaching us how we can determine National Standards achievement levels by reading tea leaves. Just in case you think it only applies to primary principals, Ken assures us this same methodology can be used to assure a 95% pass rate in all non accredited courses at NCEA Level Two too. Try misunderestimating that.