I just came across this little editorial in the Washington Post that touts school vouchers and worries that President-elect Obama might eliminate them. I’m a generation past worrying about vouchers and my son’s education, but I decided way back then that I didn’t like them. WaPo seems to be working off the premise that the … Continue reading School vouchers: I still don’t understand
The Denver Public School system does a lot of things that make me wonder about the intelligence of the people in charge. This, in turn, makes me worry about what’s happening to the education of our kids. Case in point: A recent DPS decision to start schools late on five days this year so that … Continue reading United they stand and to hell with the kids
How many of you ever use the calendars in blog sidebars? Do you look at them just to see what day it is? Do you ever use them to pull up the posts from such-and-such a date? Or just look to see how long ago it’s been since the last post? I keep debating whether … Continue reading You can observe a lot just by watching – 2
This evening PBS aired “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.” I sat riveted for the entire two hours. Fascinating looks at the people and testimony in the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case in Pennsylvania a few years ago, where the judge had to decide whether an effort to inject Intelligent Design (ID) into the school’s science curriculum was … Continue reading PBS scores with ‘Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial’
Fox News just aired a short discussion about schools suspending students because of what they (the students) posted on myspace.com. The question was whether schools had the right to do this. The schools were acting within their rights if the activities occurred at school using school computers. The report, however, indicated that the alleged offenses … Continue reading School authority stops at the curb
I prefer the local take on Colorado teacher Jay Bennish’s remark comparing President George Bush to Hitler. The national networks have quoted him out of context, failed to mention that his is an honors class in “human geography,” and implied strongly that the student walkout was an indictment when in fact it was, for the … Continue reading Freedom of speech; let him teach
