Dead Horse

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead
horse, the best strategy is to dismount.  However, in educational
improvement, our government and media try other strategies with dead
horses, including the following:

1.  Buying a stronger whip
2.  Changing riders
3.  Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse"
4.  Appointing a committee to study the horse
5.  Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses
6.  Increasing the standards to ride dead horses
7.  Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse
8.  Creating a training session to increase our riding ability
9.  Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environmnet
10. Pass legislation declaring that "This horse is not dead"
11. Blaming the horse's parents
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat"
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance
15. Do a cost analysis to see if contractors can ride it cheaper
16. Procure a commercial design for dead horses
17. Declare the horse is "better, faster, and cheaper" dead
18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses
20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position

Submitted By: Charles Miley

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