Home Schooling
My recent post about a father who’s considering home schooling as an option for their kid due to the “terrible” quality of education reminds me: how qualified are these folks to home school their kids?
I tutor in the local high school system, but that doesn’t mean I’m good at teaching little kids to read, or teaching AP European history to teenagers. My parents were both college graduates, but they were both smart enough–and humble enough–to leave my education to professionals.
I’m also concerned that the typical parent in this position is going to crap out very badly when it comes to post-algebra math: geography, trig, algebra 2, and calculus, not to mention high school science: biology, chemistry, and physics.
Virtually every day we have shocking news concerning America’s self-destruction in terms of domestic policies and externally, on the world stage.
In conversations with senior energy analysist Glenn Doty, he’s warned me of the dangers of promoting ideas like “Mother Nature,” or other suggestions to the effect that the planet is animated by a kind of spirit that protects it from humankind’s atrocious behavior.
Re: the last sentence in David Axerlrod’s comments here, Zelensky most definitely does know that the majority of American’s stand behind his efforts to repel the Russian invasion.
The other day I ran into a young couple with an infant, who live in a rural part of the U.S. I happened to overhear the father saying that the quality of public education where they live is “terrible,” and that they’re thinking about home schooling. And so, as if it were any of my business, I asked him by what metric the schools in his area are, in fact, terrible.
Politicians have been making promises they clearly can’t keep from the dawn of democracy. But now along comes Trump, a pathological liar who made more than 30,000 false statements in his first term. He’s a man who, among his other accomplishments, has taken lying out of the hands of the amateurs.
Each and every day for the next four years, the 150 million Americans who voted in the last election will be waking up in the morning, wondering what the U.S. government has done while they were sleeping.
American’s need to stop being surprised by reports like the one at left. We need to get past the idea that the Trump administration cares one iota for the well-being of the U.S. citizens.
Recent surveys suggest that about 60% of Americans disapprove of the Trump administration. But does this translate into a “hatred” of our country?
Journalist Brian Tyler Cohen doesn’t seem too sanguine on America’s current president–as if there is something morally repugnant about causing the release of a rapist and sex trafficker.
