Discouraging our kids, dismantling our future
No valedictorians!? What are we doing to our educational system? What are we doing to our future? Continue reading Discouraging our kids, dismantling our future
Category: Education
The times they are a changin’
Bet you can’t answer this question: What do the names “F-Bomb Firetrucks” and “Bamfs” have in common? Answer: Both are proposed names for volleyball teams at my 7-year-old grandson’s K-8 school! I was outraged when my son told me, even though I had to ask him what Bamf means. Both he and my daughter-in-law immediately … Continue reading The times they are a changin’
In the soup: Starbucks, Bing, Congress, et al
Education funding cuts Cutting funding to education? No wonder students are protesting today. The resulting tuition hikes in many cases will be so large that students already on tight budgets won’t be able to stay in school. Teachers will be fired, some classes will be eliminated, others will get much larger. I don’t agree with … Continue reading In the soup: Starbucks, Bing, Congress, et al
SC can’t control foot-in-mouth disease
When it comes to explaining things, no one has been as inept recently as South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer. Most of us understand what dependency is and how it develops. But Bauer really put his foot in it last Friday when he attempted to explain dependency by comparing poor children to stray animals: My … Continue reading SC can’t control foot-in-mouth disease
Printed books and their stores endangered
Interesting segment on The Colbert Report tonight. Sherman Alexie, author of the recently released War Dances, was talking about the plight of authors and books today. Alexie mentioned that he would not allow his book to be released in digital form. Why? Because it’s too likely to be pirated, something he says is happening a … Continue reading Printed books and their stores endangered
Larning to spell iz steel inportunt
As background noise this morning, as on most Sunday mornings, I had Fareed Zakaria’s show on. He was interviewing Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman and CEO, and posed an interesting question. Paraphrasing what I only halfway heard: “With all the spell checkers on all the devices we use today, will our children still learn to spell?” … Continue reading Larning to spell iz steel inportunt