Tag: education
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If You Had The Opportunity To Kill Big Bird Before He Was Born, Would You Do It?
If you had the opportunity to kill Big Bird when he was just a fleeting thought in the 1960’s, would you do it? Or would you allow Sesame Street to grow to adulthood and even old age and allow it to damage generations of children? What do you think is the right thing to do?
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Supreme Court Rules That Parents Still Have Rights Over Their Child’s Education…Let’s Think About That
The ruling simply states that parents have the right to opt their children out of certain things because parents have the right to direct the religious upbringing of their children. So, according to the Supreme Court, your 8 year old doesn’t have to hear about sex, fornication, and sodomy if you don’t want that to…
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America Is/Was a Christian Nation: That Means Christian Schools Should Get Public Funding and Islamic Schools Should Not
I occasionally feel compelled to say things that would set pink hair on fire. And today seems to be a good day for that. The burning will come from the response to my thoughts on the current Supreme Court case.
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An Argument For Putting The Ten Commandments In Classrooms
There is a lot of discussion, arguing, and fighting about whether or not the Ten Commandments should be placed in classrooms. But there’s not a lot of people out there articulating why they believe the Ten Commandments should be in classrooms. I’m going to do my best to put one on the internet for a…
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Why Now? And What Now? or I Went To A School Board Meeting Then Read “The Abolition Of Man” Again
We are slowly being conditioned to think according to the new system. According to the old standard, the radical ideas that many people hold to today were thought criminally evil in the 1950’s-1970’s. But they were thought of back then, and the few followers they had have grown exponentially. What started slowly is now moving…
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Maybe A Trump V. Oprah Election Would Be Our Fault
It was by a not-so-happy providence that I was finishing Neil Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” while hearing about Oprah Winfrey possibly running against Donald Trump in the next election in the next room. If you’ve read the book then you’ll realize just how fitting this pairing of events actually is. This is not a…
