Culture

‘OK Boomer…’ I’m Gonna Keep Homeschooling My Children 0
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- May 6, 2020
As a homeschooling father, I am no stranger to explaining our family’s choice to home educate our children: “Yes, they have plenty of socialization with other children.” “Yes, we teach all the subjects.” “No, you can simply buy the curriculum and it tells you what to do.” By now I have the answers memorized. You
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Mike Rowe Is Right: There’s ‘No Such Thing’ as a Non-Essential Worker 0
- Culture
- May 5, 2020
Few people in history have seen more jobs up close than Mike Rowe, the longtime host of the Discovery Channel’s hit TV show Dirty Jobs. Now the blue-collar icon has a message for those who say “non-essential” employees have no business working during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent TV appearance with Dana Perino on
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Equality Prepared Us for Coronavirus Restrictions 0
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- May 5, 2020
I caught a small whiff of hope today. This whiff came when a relative of mine received a phone call from the cardiac rehab center at the local hospital. The rehab classes he had been taking following heart surgery were cancelled when coronavirus hit. Now there was good news: rehab will be revived next week.
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Michael Moore Knocks the Halo Off the Environmental Movement 0
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- May 5, 2020
Right from the get-go, I have to admit that Planet of the Humans, a documentary about the environmental movement produced by Michael Moore, is unfair, very unfair. And unkind, too, very unkind, to Al Gore. Alas. But as the Sierra Club might have said, you can’t produce clean, green biomass energy without levelling forests. Planet of
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Let’s Go Backwards in Education 0
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- May 4, 2020
Maybe part of the “New Normal” should be the “Old Normal.” In the last two weeks, lost among the coronavirus ruckus, some organizations have issued reports revealing the poor scores of our elementary and middle school students on standardized tests. From the Pioneer Institute comes a study showing the failures of Common Core in basic subjects like
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Forget School. Just Read.0
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- May 4, 2020
The truth is coming to light. Yesterday I overheard a public school teacher and mother of several children express an honest opinion about education during the coronavirus. Schoolwork varies by teacher and school district, she noted, with some doing almost nothing at all, while others send out huge packets of worksheets. About the latter she
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