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K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
After facing a lawsuit over its treatment of a kindergartener who identifies as transgender, a nationally recognized public charter school in Minnesota has agreed to adopt a far-reaching inclusionary policy. In the settlement, the school promised to establish a gender inclusion policy that doesn’t allow parents to opt out “based on religious or conscience objections,”
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The Secret to Getting Along With Others 0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
I had already completed 16 years of schooling when I took a class to prepare for entrance exams to law school (I decided not to go). First order of business for nailing the exam: the study of logic. My mind was absolutely blown. I was stunned to discover that there are rules for thinking, proofs
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Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?0
- Politics
- August 7, 2017
President Trump was right to defend the West, a civilization which goes back to the Homeric epic and the Hebrew prophets, and having been baptized by Christ, is “not the property of any particular race but the universal aspiration of humankind”… In an essay for The Atlantic earlier this month, Peter Beinart, an associate professor of journalism
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If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
Should we abandon arguments for abortion if they also permit infanticide? Two US-based academics say “yes”. In a new paper in the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, philosophers David and Rose Hershenov suggest that non-conscious fetuses and minimally conscious neonates are morally equivalent in their fundamental interests, namely, their shared interest in “healthy development”. Insofar as
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Do Children Really Need ‘More Rigorous’ Pre-Schools?0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
My grandmother taught kindergarten. In the ‘40s, before her own baby boomer children arrived, she spent weekday mornings singing ABCs and writing 123s with neighborhood children in the living room of her small suburban home. Kindergarten back then was very different from today. For one, it was fun. For another, it was part-time and low-key.
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Logic is More Important than Ever – So Why Don’t Schools Teach it Anymore?2
- Education
- August 7, 2017
One of the great ironies of our age is that schools have stopped teaching logic in an age when it’s more necessary than ever. We live in a time defined by vast information, mass marketing, and propaganda. It’s been 70 years since Dorothy Sayers observed that by teaching young men and women to read but
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K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents 0