Schools
It’s OK to bully if you’re PC
Bullying is the topic of the moment, obviously– although, when the media gets bored with it they’ll just move on to something else that matters to them. Kids get bullied at school because of the nature of the beast: huge institutions used to house barely supervised children. School is Lord of the Flies, all day. […]
The military must overhaul its education
There’s been a sea change in attitude of the US military when it comes to the education of its ranks. Not so long ago post secondary education was considered the exclusive realm of the officer corps. Today, not only is the military leadership encouraging its enlisted men and women to seek out higher education, they’re […]
Honors for graduating enlistees
The Washington Post reports that parents in Fairfax, Virginia are putting pressure on the school board to honor their children who are graduating from high school and enlisting in the military like other students who have mapped out their first few years after high school; These parents are pressing the county school board Thursday night […]
An aside for those of you with college age kids
Please forgive my deviation from the regular theme of this blog but I figured it behooved those of you intending to send your children onto college to take a look at this particular series of events I’ve seen unfolding. Following a post from Roger Kimball, the editor and publisher of the excellent cultural review The […]
Waiting for Superman
So, Netflix put the documentary “Waiting for Superman” on it’s wireless list, so that’s what I’m watching this afternoon. It’s about the “education””system” in this country. If you can watch this documentary and not walk away hating the government, unions and liberalism in general, you’re a brainless moron. This is how liberalism promises to make […]
Professor calls care packages shameful.
So just like a similar case that happened Saint Xavier University a few years ago. Professor Michael Avery sent the email in response to a campus wide email asking support for care packages. According to the people over at “Above the Law”, he said the following below. I think it is shameful that it is […]
Good kids out there
This article on Rivals High tells a story of a kid in Minnesota, Josh Ripley, who carried an injured opponent a half a mile back to the beginning of the Applejack Invite and then ran the complete 2 mile race. “I didn’t think about my race, I knew I needed to stop and help him,” Ripley said […]
Picking your fights
Adirondack Patriot sent a link to The Blaze about armless and legless 16-year-old Julia Sullivan who wants to join her school’s cheerleading squad and she’s been rejected three years running. I certainly sympathize with her plight and her desire to be a normal teenage high school student, but she and her parents have sent the […]
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