Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’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
Continue readingOne of my old high school friends, an ardent liberal, posted the following on his Facebook page: Doesn’t that just make so much sense? Give free education and your nation will be wonderful. Of course, both “Mr. Silhouette” and the friend who posted it suffer from no small amount of
Continue readingLet’s start with that acronym — LGBTQ. It stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning. There are also adjectives that can precede LGBTQ, such as “Of color,” Black, African American, Asian, Hispanic, Disabled, etc., all of which create their own little sub groups within the LGBTQ group, which is
Continue readingI’ve been coming across so much interesting stuff this morning that I’m going to do another flotsam and jetsam post. One of the things we’ve long known is that the Left lies about statistics. Examples of this are “1 in 4 women have been sexually assaulted” canard and the “women
Continue readingI’ve written before about one of my favorite writers, Paul Fussell. He wrote a wonderful essay entitled Thank God for the Atom Bomb, about the righteousness of dropping the atom bomb. He was in the Army when Truman dropped the bomb, so Fussell wholeheartedly approved — and had the data
Continue readingI adore reading but, with one exception, I loathed every high school or college English class I ever had. Watching my children go through high school English classes reminded me why: the books they believe we should read are dull and the teacher’s firmly believe that a cigar is invariably
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