Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Reviewing Unit 1 of BYU’s online Honors Government class suggests it’s no better than the high school class; the only advantage is that students save time. There’s an interesting unofficial experiment taking place at Little Bookworm’s high school: Rather than sitting through a semester of Government (five days a week
Continue readingMy daughter is a nice girl in the old-fashioned sense — she’s moral and values herself. Her friends are the same — nice, old-fashioned girls. My daughter has large numbers of friend who are boys. The really like her — but they won’t date her. High school is peculiarly like
Continue readingWe had an interesting conversation at our dinner table last night. My son said that, now that he’s at high school, he enjoys his science class most. He finds the other classes boring and, to his mind, pointless. Having watched a documentary recording what goes on in UC Berkeley’s liberal
Continue readingOne of my children told me an interesting story about something that happened at her high school yesterday. Because of questions from the students, a teacher gave a brief explanation of Obamacare, which included the information that it would insure everybody and that young people would be forced to buy
Continue readingEver since my kids hit public school, I go through this every single Fall — “this” being the discovery that their English teachers are often border-line illiterate. I know that there are wonderful, literate English teachers out there (Mike McDaniel springs instantly to mind), but my children haven’t been lucky
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 readingI adore Facebook. In the “real me” Facebook world, I have about 200 friends, reflecting all different phases of my life, from junior high school on up. I enjoy watching their lives unfold. I go on their travels with them, see their kids grow up (some of whom friend me
Continue readingYesterday, my sister emailed me a “cheer up” email that’s making the rounds. It’s intended for women, who tend to feel more strongly than men do that the mirror is their enemy. The tag line is “It isn’t just us who suffer changes over the years!” The rest of the
Continue readingMy daughter started high school at our local public high. It’s a great high school. It’s got a beautiful facility, high quality staff, all the bells and whistles you can think of, an involved parent body, and a whole lot of very nice kids. I always knew all that, but
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