Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I shouldn’t be surprised that a student in the town of Novato, in Marin, was punished after writing an article for his school newspaper critical of illegal immigration: [Andrew] Smith, who graduated in 2002, wrote stories titled “Immigration” and “Reverse Racism” for The Buzz newspaper while he was a senior.
Continue readingI offer no comment, just the story: STUDENTS at Madrone High School in San Rafael put together a “peace flag” Tuesday in memory of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Each student received the afternoon off to decorate a square of fabric with a message of
Continue readingI know you all caught the story about the school in Colorado that banned tag. The school’s primary stated reason for having instituted this ban was to shelter kids they perceived as emotionally delicate: An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed
Continue readingIf I remember correctly, the New York Times was not that upset about a tax funded school in New York devoted to giving Muslims a proper Arabic and Muslim culture education. I guess it was just sleeping the day that news story came out. Today, it’s wide awake and really
Continue readingDon Quixote will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think one of the core things about being a libertarian is that you don’t try to control people’s conduct, but you do step in if they break certain clearly stated rules. Indeed, you don’t need to be a libertarian to
Continue readingAs I’ve freely admitted over the years, I’m quite a cowardly person. I’m a physical coward insofar as I assiduously avoid physical risks, and I’m an intellectual coward to the extent that I blog anonymously. I’d like to be brave, I truly would, but whether I’m confronting the specter of
Continue readingI’m sitting here eating a bowl of 8 a.m. chocolate ice cream to celebrate one of my favorite days of the year: the first day of school. I’ve always loved the first day of school. As a child, I loved the sense of possibility: wonderful things could happen during the
Continue readingFor a university to charge tuition isn’t unreasonable. However, I do have a problem with a university charging over $31,000 per year in tuition, per student (and that doesn’t include room and board), while at the same time boasting an endowment of $34.9 billion (not a typo). Seems a bit
Continue readingFIRE has targeted the University of Maryland at College Park as one of the most repressive colleges in America. It’s created an environment governed entirely by giving all self-styled victims the right to take offense, with no vestige of the traditional Western university model of the free exchange of ideas.
Continue readingYou know that I think the best teaching method out there is a pure Montessori approach. It focuses on how children learn, rather than on how union educators think teachers ought to teach, and instills in children a lifelong love of learning, and a depth of understanding that’s foreign to
Continue readingThe Left (both at home and abroad) likes to revile the infamous American President “Chimpy-BusHitler,” but they seem to be taking a pass on some people that even the Left would have to concede have a bit more blood on their hands. Mike Adams and the American Thinker take on
Continue readingLittle Bookworm used to leap out of bed every morning, anxious to go to school and work on whatever project was engaging her attention at the time. After six months in public school, I struggle to wake her up as she pleads “Do I have to go to school today?”
Continue readingLittle Bookworm went off to school today with her “motor project.” It began a month ago, when she came home with a small motor — a small cylinder with two wires sticking out the bottom and a little spindle coming out of the top. If you press the wires to
Continue readingThere’s a big hoo-ha going on down in Burlingame, an affluent community south of San Francisco. It seems that 8th graders were reading a book that included descriptions of anal sex and, when a parent complained, the superintendent had the temerity, on moral grounds yet, to pull the book out
Continue readingPublic schools think children are imbeciles with egos so fragile they cannot withstand any criticism. I know for a fact that this isn’t true, because my kids thrived for years in a school that treated them with respect, that assumed their native intelligence, and that demanded quality work from them.
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