The Scary Speech To School Kids
Hold on. Everybody take a deep breath. Feel better? Ok, I’m going to have to ask some of you to be honest with yourselves for just a second…wasn’t this really a completely partisan reaction? I mean, I understand not wanting your kids to be indoctrinated by socialists. Seriously, I do. I just don’t get why [...]
School Choice in Nashville
There’s a cool event going on at the Nashville Zoo next Thursday for those in the midstate area. The 2008 Friedman Legacy Event is a free event presented by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research in support of homeschool, charter school, and private school rights. They’re even providing chaperones so that your kids can have [...]
Forget Education, Someone Has a Better Idea for Schools
From the NYT “Imagine schools that are open all day and offer after-school and evening recreational activities, child care and preschool, tutoring and homework assistance,” the speech reads. “Schools that include dental, medical and counseling clinics.” I’ll get around to imagining that just as soon as I’m finished imagining schools that do what they’re supposed [...]
Homeschooling Ruled Illegal in California–Seriously
Last month I posted about a proposal in Nebraska that would mandate testing to homeschooling families. Today, thanks to Reason, I read an article in the LA Times stating that homeschooling has been ruled illegal by a California appellate court. “Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,” wrote Justice H. [...]
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 [...]
So What Is The Purpose of Schools?
Taylor the Teacher makes some good points about our education system… If schools are for parenting, dietary management, public safety, sex ed, driver’s ed, football, lifelong memories, values, morals AND learning, that changes the equation significantly. If schools are about learning only when learning doesn’t confict with the culture war, get in anyone’s political path, [...]
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