Tag: Reforms

The Perverse Children’s Crusade – Hamster-Wheeling For Progressivism

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Guest post: Michelle Moore Kiss your children good-bye and whisper Godspeed  ... they've been drafted by the Far Left ... without your permission. Again. Liberal-progressives intend to use YOUR schools and YOUR children to protest the Bill of Rights - namely the Second Amendment. On YOUR dime. April 20, 2018, marks the 19th anniversary of Columbine … Continue reading The Perverse Children’s Crusade – Hamster-Wheeling For Progressivism

If Not You, Who? This Is A School, Not China

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This is a school. It has no secret powers over you ... or your child. A mother was threatened by school officials because she expressed her opinion on Facebook.   She was "warned" that she might be banned from the campus ... and perhaps barred from school activities ... if she didn't smother her opinions. … Continue reading If Not You, Who? This Is A School, Not China

Rushing Them and Crushing Them – Church of Reformed Education

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“I had my son at 40 … so I am old enough to remember the way things were.” Pamela Settle Didn't matter.  You were totally unprepared for social and emotional learning, closed reading, frustrating math, social justice curricula, computerized assessments, and college and career ready education. And... of course ... academic kindergarten. This is the … Continue reading Rushing Them and Crushing Them – Church of Reformed Education

K-12: Like Taking Candy From Babies

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Reblogged with our added emphasis (guest post) K-12: Like Taking Candy from Babies Posted by Bruce Deitrick Price Columnist EducationViews.org By Bruce Deitrick Price – This cliché usually carries a double message: something is easy to do but shameful. No decent person would do it. You know, like the emotional and intellectual abuses all too … Continue reading K-12: Like Taking Candy From Babies

Baby PISA

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This moment of pedagogical abuse sits at the feet of mothers and fathers across America. There is now enough reform history that cannot be denied. If this comes to pass, parents own the moment. This is what happens when parents become self-absorbed, uncurious, and lazy. When they are so full-up in their own moments that they … Continue reading Baby PISA

“A Five Nation Survey by the Gallup Poll: Is European Education Better Than Ours?”

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What’s that old adage? … “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Well, the truth is still hopping around on one leg because the lies about public education have had a helluva head start. A half century head start. This is the cover of … Continue reading “A Five Nation Survey by the Gallup Poll: Is European Education Better Than Ours?”

Technological Opium Dens

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“Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in some alien child’s room as a science fair project that got a C minus …” Leave it up to a meme … the new technological bumper-sticker … to tutor us about our probable insignificance and immaturity. It’s smart to … Continue reading Technological Opium Dens

Elites – Know-It-Alls

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  And it’s been this way since man was tossed from Eden. There are those who command others to do what they would never do themselves. These are the elites who foam up in every society ... no matter how egalitarian it’s all supposed to be. The ones who set down commandments … and then … Continue reading Elites – Know-It-Alls

GMO Children

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There is no virtue in making children so brave that they might withstand the idiocy of adults. If schools think education is all about testing …. they’ve already forfeited their privilege to enjoy your child. Remember that. This testing madness has the tell-tale symptoms of a sick obsession … a creepy neurosis that screams of … Continue reading GMO Children

Cognitive Privilege … Excuse de Jour

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Here we go again. Progressive-liberal nonsense de jour. Remember this Obama thud? ... "... if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own." That sort of garbage logic is still around ... polluting circumstances of all sorts ... excusing ne'er-do-wells and the profoundly lazy from any kind of responsible acceptance of their own … Continue reading Cognitive Privilege … Excuse de Jour