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  • Tolerance or Respect?

    Tolerance or Respect?33

    • March 21, 2016

    Respect is (1) an alternative to tolerance and (2) the better one. It is an alternative because it concerns the same issue: how to live with fellow humans who appear to be identically constituted in their need to formulate opinions and to assert them in speech (not always in that order) but disparately developed in

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  • Toilet Paper Derangement Syndrome: It’s Here and It’s Real

    Toilet Paper Derangement Syndrome: It’s Here and It’s Real0

    I was at the dentist’s office last week for a checkup when Dr. H came in wearing his usual colorful smock. He poked around in my mouth, and then said to his assistant, “Number 15 is going to have to come out.” “Number 15?” I asked. “The molar at the back on the top left.

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  • Today’s Young Voters Are Embracing Socialism for a Very Good Reason

    Today’s Young Voters Are Embracing Socialism for a Very Good Reason0

    Election time is nearing and individuals young and old are making their list, checking it twice, and… deciding which candidates are worthy of support. The younger generation is especially getting into the spirit of things, most recently evidenced by Taylor Swift’s endorsement of candidates in her home state. Naturally, this surge of civic responsibility seems like

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  • Today’s Schools Are Passing Kids Even When They Fail

    Today’s Schools Are Passing Kids Even When They Fail2

    • August 3, 2015

    Are schools increasingly passing students on to the next grade despite poor performance in class? That’s the issue recently explored by Jay Matthews in the Washington Post. Matthews describes the experiences of one parent who knew her daughter was deliberately ignoring her school work, yet was rewarded with a passing grade by her teacher: “A

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  • Today’s One-Room Schools: Why Families Love Them

    Today’s One-Room Schools: Why Families Love Them0

    When I was in grade school, one of the annual highlights of my summer was the day my friends and I went on a field trip to an old one-room schoolhouse. To all of us, the day was an opportunity to “be like Laura [Ingalls]” by dressing up, having spelling bees, and reading lessons out

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  • Today’s Man Bites Dog Story: Public School Teacher Takes On Unions

    Today’s Man Bites Dog Story: Public School Teacher Takes On Unions0

    • August 5, 2015

    Rebecca Friedrichs had a rude awakening as a young student teacher. Concerned about the physically abusive teacher in the class next door, she asked her own master teacher what they should do about the abuse. The answer she got? “Nothing.” Finding that these children were in harm’s way because their teacher was protected by unions

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