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  • Are Lax School Discipline Policies Hurting Good Students?

    Are Lax School Discipline Policies Hurting Good Students?0

    “Mom, I have to get out of my history class and transfer to another. I’m never going to learn anything because the kids are so disruptive.” That’s what an acquaintance’s son recently said about his high school. Because his parents were unable to afford private school, this young man transferred to a local public school

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  • Are Kids More Capable than Today’s Parents Realize?

    Are Kids More Capable than Today’s Parents Realize?0

    Yesterday, we published a piece on legislators who want to make it “illegal for parents to leave any child younger than seven alone in a car, or any child under age 10 home alone.” One of the legislators behind this law noted the harms of leaving children alone, saying that they could get into any

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  • Are Human Rights Real?

    Are Human Rights Real?0

    “Rights! Boy, everyone in this country’s always running around yammering about their [expletive] rights. ‘I have a right,’ ‘You have no right’… Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but there’s no such thing as rights. Ok? They’re imaginary. We made them up,” comedian George Carlin said in a 2008 stand-up special. According to Carlin, who

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  • Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?

    Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?0

    I’ve been fascinated with the concept of the one-room school ever since I watched television episodes of Little House on the Prairie in my preschool years. Admittedly, my early fascination stemmed from the romanticism of wanting to be like Laura Ingalls. But as I grew older and that romanticism faded, the interest in one-room schools

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  • Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?

    Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?0

    In a recent Facebook post, Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show, shared a letter he received from an Arkansas mother. The letter ran as follows: Dear Mike My son, Spencer, decided to apply for the High Voltage Lineman program at Arkansas State University Newport. He went through the interviews just fine,

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  • Are Gifted and Talented Students Being Left Behind?

    Are Gifted and Talented Students Being Left Behind?0

    • June 23, 2015

    We hear a lot about the efforts and plans to promote the progress of failing students in today’s public schools. But in our efforts to get those students caught up, are we also squelching the abilities and interests of our best and brightest students? The answer to that question seems to be yes, according to

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