The Holiday Tango

The Holiday Tango The Evacuation of Public Education I am a recipient of 12 1/2 years of public education (when I was young kindergarten met only half days. In those days kindergarten was seen as a transition year, allowing children to adjust from life at home into...

Vouchers II

Vouchers II Failure to provide educational vouchers is a violation of the separation of Church and State principle. The State has a justified interest in the education of its citizens. But when it designs an educational system permeated with a narrowly defined...

Something Happened In Our Town

Something Happened In Our Town is a book written by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard from the Emory University School of Medicine. A Marshall University article about the book commented: “This New York Times and Indiebound bestseller is written by...

Vouchers for School: A Critical Need

Our country will not consider a voucher system for school education. Why not? Because to do so would put a stop to the ideological bulldozing of the powerful. To do so would undermine the Democratic party. To do so would damage The American Federation of Teachers and...

The Umbrage Gestapo

This past week’s victim of the Umbrage Gestapo is Dr. Seuss. Apparently six of his books contain insensitive remarks or pictures and have been taken off the market. I looked up the names of the offending titles and discovered I was familiar with only one of them: And...

Vouchers

Many Americans are opposed to vouchers for the education of children. The common objection is that vouchers harm public education while underwriting religious schools and, as such, mix Church and State. The objection belies the reality. It is the failure to provide...