Common advice from knowledgeable horse trainers includes the adage. "If the horse you're riding dies, get off." Seems simple enough, but, in education, we don't always follow that advice. Instead, we choose from an array of alternatives which include:
1. Buying a stronger whip.2. Trying a new bit or bridle.
3. Switching riders.
4. Saying things like, "This is the way we've always ridden this horse."
5. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
6. Arranging to visit other sites where they ride dead horses more efficiently.
7. Riding the horse for longer periods of time.
8. Increasing the standards for riding dead horses.
9. Creating a test to measure our ability to ride a dead horse.
10. Comparing how we're riding now with how we did ten or twenty years ago.
11. Coming up with new styles of riding dead horses.
12. Blaming the horse's parents. The problem is in the breeding.
13. Tightening the cinch.
