The Perfectly Aged Kindergartener
In yet another move that is sure to greatly improve the life of every citizen, the Tennessee legislature is pondering whether or not to change the cutoff date that determines when children can attend kindergarten. Makes sense to me. Who better than a group of politicians to decide when your kid is ready for school? [...]
My 2007 Year in Review
Unlike everyone else, I slacked off and waited until 2008 was officially here to do my review. 2007 was my first year of full on blogging. I’d messed around here and there with different blogs before, but 2007 was the year I drank the Kool Aid and went at it for real. I’ll keep this [...]
Television That Is Better Than Most Books
From the looks of its ratings, there’s a good chance you’ve never watched HBO’s “The Wire”, and that’s okay. You probably haven’t heard much about it. It’s not the kind of show most of the people you work with will stand around and talk about. Honestly, it’s not the kind of show most of the [...]
Why Are Public Schools All or Nothing?
A friend at work home schooled his daughter up until high school, and one of the reasons he mentioned for sending her to public school this year was that she wanted to be involved in the band. That got me thinking. He pays taxes just like everyone else in the county. Why does his daughter [...]
School Fundraising–Producing Beggars for at Least 30 Years
Is anyone else really put off when they are attacked by an army of eight year olds in front of the grocery store trying to sell something for their school? We were just talking about this yesterday after our weekly trip to the store. Yesterday’s group of kids wasn’t even selling anything, they were just [...]
It’s All About The Process
Ken has a great post on a project his kids are working on. They’ve researched 4th Amendment Supreme Court cases and are filming re-enactments (he hopes). Technology has given them the opportunity to learn in a way that they couldn’t before, and even if they never get to finalizing filming and editing, he’s okay with [...]
Higher Education Marketing
Seth Godin has a great post today about what actually matters (and what doesn’t) when choosing a college. It’s almost as if every single high school student and her parents insisted on having a $200,000 stereo because it was better than the $1,000 stereo. Sure, it might be a bit better, but is it better [...]
Three Things I Haven’t Let Go
When I first got hit with this meme by BillyMac, I thought the topic was “3 Things I Wouldn’t Let Go”. That one would be pretty easy–family, health, and some other random item. But this is “3 Things You Haven’t Let Go”, which has a much different conotation. Maybe I’m inferring it incorrectly, and it’s [...]
How Fitting
There’s been some discussion here over the last couple of days about some of the problems with education, and more specifically the distractions from learning that exist in the school systems. And today my trusty reader finds this article… Thursday night, the future student body got together at Hardin Valley Elementary in hopes of finding [...]
Per Yesterday’s Education Conversation…
Doug Metaconis at The Liberty Papers has this to say about birth control being offered at a public school in Portland, Maine: The solution, it seems, is obvious. Get government out of the eduction business, let parents choose where they send their children to school. And stop this insane practice of turning teachers and school [...]
