Say It Ain’t So!
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006What? We're out of compliance with NCLB in Montana? Inconceivable. I've said it before: Local Control Is Good™ [UPDATE:] Maybe I should have said, "What? Us fail NCLB? That's unpossible!"
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What? We're out of compliance with NCLB in Montana? Inconceivable. I've said it before: Local Control Is Good™ [UPDATE:] Maybe I should have said, "What? Us fail NCLB? That's unpossible!"
We’ve changed, and we’re not the same
Sunday, July 30th, 2006In the first of a 13-part series of articles beginning in today's (Sunday, July 30) New York Times, "New research from around the world has begun to reveal a picture of humans today that is so different from what it was in the past that scientists say they are ...
Free Market Competition - A Beautiful Thing
Friday, March 3rd, 2006A rising tide lifts all boats. Here is a great example. The same could happen to our education system if we'd only let it. Free market competition makes consumers, and ultimately society, better off.
Freedom and Ignorance
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006Consider this...in light of this... "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to C. Yancey, 1816.
Cultivating Genius?
Thursday, February 9th, 2006John Clayton recently posted this quote as an argument why schools should be public: Schools should serve "the Benefit of the Poor and the Rich; that the Children of all, partaking of equal Advantages and being placed upon an equal Footing, no Distinction might be made among them in the Schools ...
Can they make them do it
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006Can they make them.pdf This article appeared in the Montana Lawyer. I wish this fellow had shared his thoughts with the whole state instead of just the lawyers. I think his thoughts are very appropriate. Shouldn't it be the legislature's (read: the people's) job to decide these things?
No. No. No, and No.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005Once again, the puplic school levy goes down in flames. I can't much comment on the 16% turnout, since I was one of the 84% who stayed home, albeit unintentionally. I reminded myself to remind myself about it, then promptly forgot. I'm getting a bad case of CRS in my old ...
Jokes That Write Themselves
Friday, July 29th, 2005As I have mentioned repeatedly, the school district here in town is in full-blown beg-a-thon mode. In fact, we just got a letter from them explaining why they need the money. Here's the return address: Sometimes, it's just too easy.
Why Johnny Can’t Read
Friday, July 8th, 2005We haven't thrown enough money at the school, is what this opinion piece says. One of the arguments she advances seems to be that since the school is not spending as much as allowed by statute, we should go ahead and kick in some more. In another tortured twist of ...
A Real Dome Scratcher
Friday, April 29th, 2005Charging tuition for Kindergarten at the public school. Thanks, of course, to NCLB. Repeat after me: Local control and local standards are a Good Thing™.
School Daze
Thursday, April 7th, 2005On the upside, at least they're not sleeping with their students. (H/T: Osbasso.)
Shaking the Money Tree
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005When you throw more money at something, said money has to come from somewhere. Usually, it comes directly from the taxpayers, but this time it'll be a little more indirect in the form of tuition increases. I read The Kaimin to hear what the students think of their tuition increases, and the ...
The Other Side of the Coin
Friday, April 23rd, 2004As you probably all know, I'm not a big fan of public education, and spend quite a bit of time talking about what I see as problems with the system. Lest I be known as a purveyor of only the negative, I just wanted to point out that I had a ...
Sheesh
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004In class today, the subject of U.S. Circuit Courts came up. During the discussion, the prof briefly mentioned that there was a movement to create a 12th Circuit Court. He explained that the reason this movement was afoot was because there is an argument that (and I quote), "The 9th Circuit is ...
State Not Paying Fair Share for Education
Saturday, January 17th, 2004The state is not paying its fair share for primary and secondary public education in Montana and is forcing local property taxpayers to pick up the ever-increasing tab, plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state of Montana claim. Let me see if I can rephrase that: Since the state is ...
