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Why Are So Many Female Teachers Sleeping With Students?2
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
I posed this question on my Facebook page a few days ago: “Is there much/any social science on the phenomena of female teaches suddenly sleeping with students?” This was shortly after news broke that a 24-year-old Texas teacher was on the lam for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student who had also impregnated her, according
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Disgusting: Anti-Trump Protesters Show who is Violent and Hateful 0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Things are clearly getting heated in politics with the arrival of Donald Trump. Since the Chicago, anti-Trump protests broke out in violence, the subsequent anti-Trump protests seem to be escalating in violence whether in New Mexico, San Diego, or San Jose. The most recent videos are filled with physical assaults against pro-Trump individuals, destruction of
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Chores: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Kids’ Character 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Business Insider ran a list of 13 things parents can do to turn their child into a successful adult. The first item on the list was to make a child do chores. Given the fact that only 28 percent of parents require their children to do chores, it seems that we’re destined for a generation
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Are Parents Training Children to be Inattentive?0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
When I was still in high school, a local private grade school invited me to become one of their piano teachers. Needless to say, I was nervous, but quite excited about the opportunity. I soon found out that while some of my students loved piano and entered wholeheartedly into practicing, others absolutely did not. In
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America’s Opioid Addiction Is Worse Than You Think 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
By now, most Americans know that the United States has seen a sharp increase in opioid-overdose deaths over the past decade. The opioid problem is indeed global. In Afghanistan, for example, a major if not the major source of funding for the Taliban is the sale of poppies, the opium derived from them, and the chemical paste containing it, which are the materials for making heroin. But
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The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2016
Mark up another victory for the “everyone-gets-a-trophy” mentality. The latest victim of this mindset is a high school honor student from Texas. A local ABC news affiliate reports: “National Honor Society (NHS) stoles are frequent sight at high school graduation ceremonies around the country, but one Plano Senior High School student is frustrated that he
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