Discovering what is important. After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky. Among the things I did not know at the time was that I was adopted as an infant into a family with four adults, in which I was ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: Looking Back
Discovering what is important. After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky. Among the things I did not know at the time was that I was adopted as an infant into a family with four adults, in which I was ... MORELiberal Dream: 11-yo Girls Can Now Get Birth Control Devices Implanted In Them Without Parents Knowing
by Matt Agorist. Between 1991 and 2013, the teen birth rate declined by 57% nationwide. Over this period, teen pregnancy has declined in all 50 states and among all racial/ethnic groups. Washington State is ranked 13 in the country for teen pregnancies with 20.5 births per 1,000 girls ages 15-19. That is a much better rate than Arkansas, which is more ... MOREWalter E Williams: Improving Black Education
Use free market competition. Last summer's Ferguson, Missouri, disturbances revealed that while blacks were 67 percent of its population, only three members of its 53-officer police force were black. Some might conclude that such a statistic is evidence of hiring discrimination. That's a possibility, but we might ask what percentage of blacks met ... MOREWalter Olson: Jail For Missed Days at School?
The madness of truancy laws. We've seen it happen again and again: libertarians are derided over some supposedly crazy or esoteric position, years pass, and eventually others start to see why our position made sense. It's happened with asset forfeiture, with occupational licensure, with the Drug War, and soon, perhaps, with ... MOREThis Is Why So Many People Are Homeschooling!
A letter from the school: Dear Mr and Mrs. Rossi, I understand that your family recently took a family vacation. I want you to be aware that the Abington School District does not recognize family trips as an excused absence, regardless of the activities involved in the trip. The school district is not in the position of overseeing family vacations or ... MORENSA Spreads Its Message By Producing Coloring Books
Conditioning kids to the police state. By the time I found the National Security Agency booth on the expo
floor at last week’s RSA Conference, all the best shwag was gone. The
most prized giveaway was a faux-leather Post-it Note kit bearing the
agency’s seal. “We can’t print enough of those,” the agency rep manning the booth
told me. ... MOREState Seizes 11-year-old, Arrests His Mother After He Defends Medical Marijuana During A School Presentation
by Radley Balko. From the website run by investigative journalist Ben Swann: On March 24, cannabis oil activist Shona Banda‘s
life was flipped upside-down after her son was taken from her by the
State of Kansas. The ordeal started when police and counselors at her
11-year-old son’s school conducted a drug education class. Her son, who
had previously ... MOREStudents Are Now Literally 'Hiding from Scary Ideas,' Or Why My Mom's Nursery School Is Edgier Than College
by Robby Soave. My mother is a nursery school teacher. Her classroom is a place for children between one and two years of age—adorable little tykes who are learning how to crawl, how to walk, and eventually, how to talk. Coloring materials, Play-Doh, playful tunes, bubbles, and nap time are a few of the components of her room: a veritable "safe space" ... MOREZero Tolerance For Common Sense: Kid Was Expelled And Charged For Bringing Pot To School, Even Though He Didn't
by Robby Soave. Administrators at a middle school in central Virginia suspended a sixth-grader last September for one-year after discovering a marijuana leaf and a lighter in his backpack. The sheriff's department became involved as well and filed drug possession charges against the 11-year-old boy. Months later, prosecutors had to drop the ... MOREBruce E. Levine: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How The United States Crushed Youth Resistance
From anti-establishment to obedient sheep. Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have ... MOREWalter E Williams: Scary School Stories
Poor education is not stemming from racism. New York's schools are the most segregated in the nation, and the state needs remedies right away. That was Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch's message to New York's governor and Legislature. She said that minority children are disproportionately trapped in schools that lack teaching talent, ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Handcuffs, Leg Shackles and Tasers: The New Face of Punishment in the Public Schools
The police state at school. Roughly 1500 kids are tied up or locked down every day by school officials in the United States. At least 500 students are locked up in some form of solitary confinement every day, whether it be a padded room, a closet or a duffel bag. In many cases, parents are rarely notified when such methods are used. On any ... MOREThe Average College Freshman Reads At 7th Grade Level
by Maggie Lit. Dumb down accomplished. The average U.S. college freshman reads at a seventh grade level, according to an educational assessment report. “We are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level, according to Renaissance ... MOREHere Are 10 Outrageous 'Zero Tolerance' Follies of 2014
by Lenore Skenazy. Are your children safe at school? That depends on if you're worried about bullies or administrators. Here are 10 of the most infamous "zero tolerance" punishments handed down to kids—and even some adults—this year. 1. Student, 13, shares lunch, gets
detention A 13-year-old boy at Weaverville Elementary School in ... MOREChildren Suspended for Pretending to Smoke Candy
by Lenore Skenazy. California school district considers candy a drug. At least three New Mexico middle school students have been suspended for 10 days for inappropriately consuming Smarties. No, that's not code for some hip new drug; we are talking about the sweet-and-sour candies sold in a roll and given out to unlucky kids on Halloween. The ... MORE
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