Recycled Post For Parents With Elementary Aged Kids
I promise I didn’t plan on doing this–I just happened upon this post form last year with tips on evaluating your kids’ teachers, and I thought it was a good time to bring it up again since school has just started back. This is one of the few posts I’ve written that I think may [...]
So Crazy It Just Might Work
What, exactly, is it the Department of Education does again? Are we to take solace in the fact that the British national education system is as screwed up as ours? H/T Why Homeschool?
How Much Schooling is Enough?
I was listening to Dave Ramsey this afternoon and he fielded a call I’ve heard him take several times in the past–”Should I quite my job (or sell my house, or cash in my savings, or sell my kid, etc.) to go back to school and get a master’s degree?” I think this is a [...]
East Tennessee High Schools Among Best In Country!
From the KNS: Three East Tennessee schools are among the top 1,300 U.S. public high schools, according to a 2008 ranking released this week by Newsweek. Oak Ridge High School in Anderson County is ranked 892, Farragut and West high schools in Knox County are ranked 1,031 and 1,042 respectively, according to the listing. 3 [...]
Part of the Solution
After being part of the problem (and not just the problem I’m discussing here) for most of my life, I think I may have taken a step in the right direction towards redemption. Of course, without The Missus I’d still be inciting bedlam at every turn. But she’s got a lot more heart and a [...]
Bad For The Country?
When I got in my car today, Sean Hannity was on. I know, I know–but that’s the station I’d been listening to earlier. I’ve pretty much established what I think of him before, but what he and his guest, Bernie Goldberg, had to say today really drives homes those feelings. Although I don’t remember which [...]
Hillary Clinton and the Economy
I can’t believe she said this: “It’s time for a president who is ready on day one to be the commander in chief of our economy,” the New York senator said, reframing her leadership campaign theme. “Sometimes the phone rings at 3 a.m. in the White House, and it’s an economic crisis.” So what is [...]
Me a Social Entrepreneur? Well, Kinda Sorta
This weekend we took advantage of my newly found unemployment opportunity for real advancement by traveling over to the midstate to visit some friends and my parents. I seldom read the Tennessean (much improved site), but I saw this article at my folks’ house this morning, and it almost describes something The Missus and I [...]
All Your Children Are Belong To Us
At least one state senator, DiAnna Schimek, in Nebraska thinks so. Her bill would require home-school students to take state-mandated tests or have their schoolwork assessed by an outside evaluator. If students‘ progress falls short academically, they would be sent to public or private schools. That’s ironic. One major factor in parents’ decision to homeschool [...]
More Educashun
I had a couple of interesting conversations about education yesterday. One was with a friend who home schooled both of his kids, and the other was with a couple of high school teachers. The one thing I took from both conversations is that it doesn’t seem like anyone is happy with the system, whether they [...]
