Bookworm on Jun 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Education, Free speech
I just attended the end of year program at my children’s elementary school. I won’t run on here about how adorable my children were or how charming the other children ewre (accept that as given). Instead, I want to focus on the show’s content, which I found both fascinating and depressing.
A little background [...]
Bookworm on Jun 05 2008 | Filed under: Education
A few weeks ago, both my kids got in the mail an invitation from their school to attend an “Albatross Award” ceremony to honor their good qualities. Mr. Bookworm, who brought the mail in, was very excited: “You’re getting awards. This is great.” (I mention Mr. Bookworm specifically here so that [...]
Bookworm on Jun 03 2008 | Filed under: Education, France, Free speech
. . . but this is sad:
Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.
A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP.
Bardot’s lawyer, Francois-Xavier [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: Education, Saudi Arabia
You have to read this to believe it, but I’ll give you a hint: a school in New Hampshire had an evening celebrating Saudi culture that included marginalizing all the girls! After you read it, imagine the other possibilities, such as a Jewish party celebrating Cossack culture, or the late Roman Empire having a bash [...]
Bookworm on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Education
If you suspected that many professors at America’s top universities view their students at passive receptacles for the professor’s propagandizing, you thought rightly. When students at Dartmouth broke this unspoken compact, one that is antithetical to the traditional idea of a university as a place where students learn logical, analysis, and the ability to [...]
Bookworm on Apr 02 2008 | Filed under: Education
Every election, education is a big issue for voters, because Americans have a strong feeling that public schools are not serving their kids well. Many blame funding for the problem. As regular readers know, I tend not to blame either funding or the individual teachers. Instead, I believe that the methodology embraced [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England, GBLT, Political correctness
In the world of presidential elections, we’re watching the fascinating spectacle of clashing identity politics. Neither Hillary nor Obama has a strong resume (or even a medium resume). Each is distinguished from the other, and from others in the field (remember Silky Pony?) solely because of gender or race. He’s black (sort of); she’s female [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England, Military
This morning we read about the Minneapolis high school that turned away the Vets for Freedom bus. It turns out that this attitude, in its most extreme form, is epidemic in England:
Teachers today vowed to oppose military recruitment campaigns in schools that are based on Ministry of Defence “propaganda”.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2008 | Filed under: Education, Free speech, Media matters
In a victory for free speech, a United States Magistrate in the Northern District of California ruled that free speech includes the right to be rude, and squashed a California State University rule barring “incivility”:
To the relief of a campus Republican group, the 417,000 students at California State University’s 23 institutions no longer face the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today.
1. John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their male peers (not that they’re whining, [...]
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