Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead
horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in schools we often
try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
1. Motivate the horse with a stronger whip.
2. Changing the teachers who ride the horse.
3. Say things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
4. Appointing a faculty committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other schools to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards for riding dead horses.
7. Ask the emergency room to revive the dead horse.
8. Create college refresher courses to upgrade riding ability.
9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
10. Change the definition declaring that "This horse is not dead."
11. Hire outside consultants to ride dead horses.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Request additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Do a Funded Study to see if some educators can ride it.
16. Purchase multimedia that can make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
18. Form a student research team to find uses for dead horses.
19. Rewrite the performance requirements for dead horses.
20. Simulate dead horses with computer programs .
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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