Bookworm on Feb 03 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England
The AP phrases the story as one about Brits “losing their grip on reality” because they think historical figures are mythical. This is not a reality problem, though. This is sheer pig-ignorance, the end result of a country that is so busy teaching political correctness, that it has phased out teaching its own [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got a deadline, so I thought I’d just give you a few links to things that interested me this morning:
Rick Moran highlights Zimbabwe’s insane inflation, another horrible indictment of Mugabe, who took one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous nations and reduced it to abject poverty.
An Iraq War widow, trying to help others, was [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Education, Mike Huckabee
Rational self-interest is a great concept, but it’s amazing how often people deviate from it and behave completely irrationally. A case in point is the “Home schoolers for Huck” trend we’re seeing right now. Huck’s political policies and pronouncements are completely antithetical to home schooling. He wants the federal government to encroach [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s a little early for Christmas, but I wrote the following for part of an American Thinker Christmas trilogy, and offer it to you here, as well:
Last week, I attended the “Winter Concert” at my children’s public elementary school. It was a very good concert. The kids - all 75 of them - [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Education
I blogged only the other day about the hare-brained thinking that characterizes the meetings I attend at my children’s public school. (See this post too.) I’m constantly amazed at how foolish these teachers and administrators are, and are they are absolutely lacking in general knowledge or analytical skills. However, because they have “education [...]
Bookworm on Dec 16 2007 | Filed under: Education, Religion
I blogged very briefly on Friday about the lawsuit against Dr. James Corbett, who, along with his school district, is being accused of using his AP history classroom to indoctrinate his students in anti-Christian attitudes. I’ve discovered two things since then. First, the LA Times article from which I quoted was disingenuous in [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2007 | Filed under: Education
They are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find cowardly, clueless school administrators, aren’t they?
Children at the Oakdale School here in southeastern Connecticut returned this fall to learn that their traditional recess had gone the way of the peanut butter sandwich and the Gumby lunchbox.
No longer could they let off their youthful energy — [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2007 | Filed under: Education
Comment would be obvious, so I’ll just offer you the news:
A San Juan Capistrano high school student and his parents filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging that his history teacher violated his constitutional rights by making “highly inappropriate” and offensive statements in class regarding Christianity.
James Corbett, who teaches Advanced Placement European history at Capistrano Valley [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education
I received this email from a friend, who thought that you all might have some useful input about a recent policy change at her daughter’s elementary school:
Apparently a boy got hit in the head playing football at recess and hurt himself, though I don’t know in what way or how badly.
The school’s response has been [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2007 | Filed under: Education
My family likes doing jigsaw puzzles. If you’ve ever done a puzzle, you know the drill: you buy a puzzle that has an interesting picture that hints at the right degree of difficulty, you spill the pieces on the table, and using the cover as your guide, you spend many enjoyable hours putting that puzzle [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Education
I seem to be in an “education-y” mode lately regarding blogging, but that’s because there’s some interesting stuff out there on the subject. At today’s American Thinker, Charles Sykes, who has written about education for about 20 years, challenges the conventional wisdom that our children are suffering from too much homework:
A generation of hyper-parents [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Education
I blogged the other day about a brave educator’s claim that cultural differences (which he mistakenly described as “race”) affect the education gap between whites and Asians on the one hand, and Hispanics and blacks on the other hand. At a conference that this educator organized to deal with these vexing issues, another speaker [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Education, Military, San Francisco
San Franciscans keep electing people like this, so I guess they get the government they deserve. By this, I mean the Stupes who decided to give everyone ID cards (which sounds like a good way to connect terrorists to their own personal bank accounts) and the School Board which is bound and determined to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: African-Americans, Education
In a debate about lagging Hispanic and Black achievement scores, people are getting an inkling that culture is an issue, but they’re still getting confused by trying to phrase the problem as one of race, not culture — a way of categorizing the issue that’s always going to make it a target for easy arguments [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education
I was perusing the “site plan” for my kids’ school, a document that spells out what the school’s goals are regarding education and the means by which they put those goals into effect. After deciphering the usual cant and education babble, I learned that our school wants to teach our kids to read, write, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Children, Climate change, Education
Schools constantly complain about the pressure to meet actual academic standards, but they somehow always find time to beat the children over the heads with social or political issues — and always from the point of view of the Lefter side of the political spectrum:
Third-grade teacher Debbie Robles made her acting debut before a packed [...]
Bookworm on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Education, Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is one of those concepts that’s supposed to give all of us a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling. We’re all equal, we’re all wonderful. We’re no longer that icky old melting pot that forced minorities with exciting, dynamic cultures to subordinate themselves to a generic white America and become bland and meaningless. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Education
Yesterday I wrote about an administrative meeting I attended at our local public school, relating how everyone assured me that the teachers understood a policy document that was to guide them. However, when I asked questions, it became apparent that the teachers, in fact, didn’t understand at least a few of the key concepts [...]
Bookworm on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Education
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — The Princess Bride
I attended a meeting at the school today for one of the management committees that sees parents and teachers working together to come up with specific details to implement long term strategic plans. All of the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 28 2007 | Filed under: Children, Climate change, Education
The global warming indoctrination is working — up to a point. In common with the school children in this John Stossel video, my children are worried about a climate change Armageddon and are hostile to Western culture because “it’s all our fault.” It’s a common topic of conversation. Hot days, cold days, nature shows — [...]
Bookworm on Oct 17 2007 | Filed under: Education
You might have noticed that I haven’t been complaining much about my kids’ school this year. We’re still at the same (high quality) public school, but both kids got very good teachers this year, which makes an enormous difference. The curriculum is still stupid, but that’s not the teachers’ fault. Within the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2007 | Filed under: Education, Immigration
Here’s how a local San Francisco online paper reported Arnold’s (correct) decision to veto the California DREAM act:
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed bill SB 1, the California Dream Act, which would have enabled qualifying [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education, Immigration
Obama is and, to date, always has been a small timer. Although he’s aiming for the highest office in the land, which is pretty much the highest office in the world, his practical experience is minimal, and it keeps on showing. His latest move, to support the DREAM act which will encourage in-state tuition fees [...]
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