MO Gov Parson gave a speech to MO education administrators recently, which has me feeling a tad ranty. In it, he spoke glowingly of his friend ‘Margie’, director of DESE (MO Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education), and encouraged MO’s poor public s…
American war dead, Flanders Field, BelgiumRemembering, once again… Memorial Day… it is enough to remember today those who have fallen in defense of our nation. But it’s not all we can do, for them or for us, and to leave it there, I think, dep…
Even if you haven’t paid close attention, you’ve heard about the issues surrounding education and school boards, locally and across the nation, concerning key issues, curriculum, and various excuses and evasions made for them. What triggered the contro…
What the establishment candidates running for FHSD school board are in agreement with each other upon, are why I’m voting for Adam Bertrand & Randy Cook in the Francis Howell School Board elections, on April 5th. If you watch our FHSD School Board …
The fact that even with twelve plus years of schooling, many of our students today can’t or won’t read, or write, or count, says all that should need to be said about the methods of modern schooling in general and of public education in particular. Wha…
The law is a subject that I find fascinating, how it developed, and developed into principles that could uphold justice, and particularly how its philosophical concepts are best applied to the often messy realities of life. Whatever your opinion of my …
A pause for a short post on the state of School Board elections and people’s (*cough *leftists* cough*) inability to tolerate opposing opinions. I made the short post below (absent the links) on our local ‘Nextdoor’ app, regarding our school board elec…
American’s changing understanding of what ‘education’ is and is for, has changed us from being a people who were literate enough for The Federalist Papers to be written for persuading the common farmer and ‘man in the street’ on adopting a constitution…
Jack Danforth’s recent suggestion that a center-right Republican should run as an independent in the 2022 Missouri senate race is ridiculous. At 85, Danforth has lost it.
“…As for literature–to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by bei…
What should, and should not be, in a school library? Who decides that? Do school libraries serve different purposes than public libraries? Is removing books from a school library the same thing as banning or censoring books? Questions like these have b…
230 years ago today, December 15th, 1791, our states united in ratifying the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America! How many of the individual rights protected by these amendments as being essential to living in…
Just a thought for those of us preoccupied by our various issues of economies and the consequences of elections, viruses and variants… remember that while those are real, and important – they don’t really amount to all that much, at least not in com…
Warning: a possible unpopular opinion here, that I’d like to run by parents and politicians: I have some concerns about this rush for a Parents Bill of Rights , and not about the motivations for why parents think it’s needed – few concerns are more obv…