Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Here in Marin, children grow up in very politically correct homes. It would be the rare household in which kids here racist comments from their parents. Also, here in Marin, kids grow up with Hispanic housekeepers and gardeners, most of whom have an incredible work ethic. They show up, and they
Continue readingAmerica’s educational institutions aren’t taking antisemitism seriously — despite the mount of proof (often from the killers themselves) showing that tens of millions have died from antisemitism over the centuries. Meanwhile, as antisemitism surges unchecked on America’s campuses, schools are taking very seriously fracking, even in the absence of any
Continue readingI’ve commented before about the way in which America’s teachers paint themselves as the hardest working, most pathetically abused people in America. In 2011, I noted that today’s teachers work fewer hours and are paid more than my dad’s generation of teachers, but the latter didn’t whine all the time.
Continue readingHere’s a story that’s familiar to many of my older readers, but one that may be surprising to my younger ones. Once upon a time, you’d sign up for the SAT a few weeks before you were to take it. Then, the night before the SAT, you’d go to bed
Continue readingAll of us have bemoaned the fact that the Nanny school is denying children the opportunity to learn skills that are essential to getting through life. The teachers should supervise to make sure that things don’t get too much out of control, but otherwise, they need to leave the kids
Continue readingIt’s already old news now that Eric Holder has announced that schools must stop disciplining minority students because he feels they are disproportionately the subject of school discipline. Many who read his edict thought, first, that a ukase against discipline based upon skin color, rather than conduct, was just about
Continue readingIn September 2011, I wrote a post about the way teachers constantly present themselves as the hardest working, most underpaid people in America. I have a great deal of respect for teachers and, to the extent I deliver my kids to their care, I want them to be decent, knowledgeable,
Continue readingSometimes my posts just re-write themselves. This is me writing in May 2009: Twenty years ago, a Stanford professor let me in on a little secret: In a Lake Woebegone-ish way, all the students at Stanford are above average. Truly. The faculty was not allowed to fail anyone, so much
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This post needs to begin with a very important observation: Since the end of WWII, and with increasing speed and force since the 1960s, Leftists parents and educators have encouraged young people to go into America’s institutions (most notably education and entertainment) to change those institutions — and change them
Continue readingI’d reached critical mass in the inbox. It was either spend the day working through it or go nuclear which, in my case, doesn’t mean blowing up Israel, but does mean simply deleting everything in my inbox, knowing that there’s no way I will ever read what’s in there. I
Continue readingArne Duncan defended common core by verbally assaulting “white suburban moms.” He’s now issued the standard Obama-era apology, which is to say that he’s not sorry for what he said, he’s just sorry that he got caught saying it: “I used some clumsy phrasing that I regret.” I was
Continue readingThis came out when I was on vacation this summer, but it will always be timely, as long as Leftists control educational systems:
Continue readingThe school year has started again and, with it, the insanity that is Zero Tolerance in America’s public schools. The Washington Post, which originally reported the story, helpfully explains that our nation’s schools have been busy little bees for the past year when it comes to criminalizing child’s play. I
Continue readingTwo things come together in this article by Christina Hoff Sommers about the war that schools routinely wage against American boys. First, it’s written by Christina Hoff Sommers, a writer I’ve deeply admired since I first read Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women. I give her a great
Continue readingMy older child is taking AP English this fall, and has to do some reading and write some essays even before school starts. I was intrigued by two of the essays: Francine Prose’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Cannot Read : How American high school students learn to loath
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