From The “I Wish I’da Written That” Files
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Do yourself a favor, and read this from the state's best concrete blogger. Well said, sir. Well said.
Archive for the ‘Edjimicayshun’ Category
Do yourself a favor, and read this from the state's best concrete blogger. Well said, sir. Well said.
Wherein I Finally Understand White Privilege
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008One of the major beefs I have with education is that higher education seems to want to spend money on bullshit, and not things like, oh, math, science, engineering, economics and things of that nature. And, being a bullshitter myself, I do consider myself somewhat a connoisseur of male bovine fecal ...
This Should Frost Your Stindeens
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008So there's this teacher/coach who accepts a pile of money from an athletic booster to steer one of his kids to a particular school, and gets his hand caught in the cookie jar. What's an apt punishment? I dunno. Give the money back, spend a little time in jail, ...
Can We Put The Grown-Ups in Charge? Please?
Friday, April 4th, 2008Just go read this article, then tell me that the inmates aren't running the asylum. “Campus activist” is what the Boston Globe-Democrat calls the students pushing for coed dorm rooms at colleges across the country. Not just coed dorms, floors or even suites. One room, two beds, a boy and a ...
Usury
Friday, February 8th, 2008I just saw an ad on TV for a company (no link -- you've probably seen the ads, too) for a company offering no-collateral loans. The quick fine print at the end has the APR, which is 99.25%. This, to me, is illustrative of an education gap. Really, anyone ...
Comparing Apples to Tall
Sunday, January 7th, 2007The IR has this article about a report that has Montana in the top 13 states for academic achievement. Wow! That should be something to crow about, right? Guess again, chumps. This is an education report, so you know that it's tied to . . . Child care and health insurance! Further, ...
Query
Monday, December 18th, 2006Why is public education sacrosanct? Specifically, why does any criticism of the current system brand one as anti-education?
A Simpler Idea
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Here's some more mission creep from the public schools. I have a pretty radical idea. It's crazy, but it just might work. How about maybe taking a job that allows you to be home when your kids get home? I know, I know. It's crazy. Meanwhile, enrollment in private schools (at least ...
Required Reading?
Friday, October 6th, 2006I was, to say the least, surprised to find my rant on permission slips on the reading list for a class assignment. (Inflating my ego two notches past the previous "intolerable" level.) Even more surprising (or maybe not) was that I used to work with the teacher's husband. This is why ...
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Friday, October 6th, 2006I found this article that describes Shop Class as Soulcraft. As a "knowledge worker," one of the things I find frustrating is that at the end of the day, there often isn't anything concrete or tangible to suggest that anything was accomplished. The article discusses that in some detail. It's well ...
A Few Million Here, A Few Million There…
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Pretty soon, we're talking about some real money. The state Board of Regents unanimously approved a Montana University System budget of more than $1 billion for the first time in the system's history Friday morning. "I think, frankly, this is something Montanans should celebrate," Regent Mark Semmens said. "It demonstrates positively the ...
Public Schools: Kicking Ass and Taking Names
Monday, October 2nd, 2006I understand that I'm taking a somewhat extreme case here, but I have to ask my sinestra pals: Is this failure, or what? And how would you propose to fix it? More money, maybe? These are all from Detroit Public Schools, which is, hands down, one of the ...
Tuition Freeze
Thursday, September 28th, 2006Governor Schweitzer has unveiled a plan to freeze tuition at Montana colleges for the next two years. That's all well and good, but my question is this: as other costs go up, and tuition stays the same, who will be left holding the bag for the difference? I wonder, indeed.
In Loco Parentis
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006This fall marks our first foray into the public school system. So far, it has been, um, interesting. The kicker has been one piece of paperwork the school sent home, requesting blanket permission for the kids to go to all field trips for the year. Excuse me? I don't think ...
Gman, there may be a way …
Friday, August 25th, 2006... of keeping children from Conservative/Libertarian families out of the insidious grip of the Leftist education establishment: According to an article in Monday's (August 21) Deseret News, "Home schooling became less of an undertaking ... for families ... in Utah two years ago after they enrolled in the (state-financed) ...
