Family

Teachers Unions Politicized U.S. Schools, Not Parents 8
- Education, Family, Politics
- August 11, 2022
When voters were asked by Pew Research, prior to the 2020 election, what issues were most important to them, education wasn’t even among the top dozen. But things have changed dramatically since then. Outlets ranging from The Washington Post, to ABC News, have identified education as a potentially significant factor in the 2022 midterms. Additionally, after education emerged as
READ MORE
Turning Fatherless Boys Into Faithful Men 1
- Culture, Education, Family
- August 10, 2022
Last week I watched another shooting unfold in my proverbial backyard, this time at the famous Mall of America, in Bloomington, MN. Thankfully, the incident wasn’t a mass shooting with multiple innocents getting mowed down in the corridors of the mall. Instead, it was an apparent gang-related shooting, with one gang member allegedly attempting to
READ MORE
The Demonization of Dissent 2
- Politics, Family, Science
- August 10, 2022
Last week the New York Times ran an article in which it described the apparent radicalization of a group of parents from mainstream political persuasions to a single-issue anti-vaccine fringe. It describes how these parents seemingly came together on social media out of a concern about the damage inflicted by lengthy school closures on their children,
READ MORE

The Strangest Thing About ‘Stranger Things’2
- Education, Culture, Entertainment, Family
- August 5, 2022
If you watch Stranger Things with your kids, there’s a good chance they spend some of the time crying. Not because the monsters are so scary, but because the kids are so free. It’s like monkeys at the zoo watching a Jane Goodall documentary. In pretty much every episode, Will, Max, Dustin, Lucas, El, and
READ MORE
New York Times Goes to War Against Parents 4
- Science, Education, Family, Politics
- August 3, 2022
Amid the New York Times’ ongoing bewilderment at anyone opposed to the wholesale reorganization of Western civilization around prevention of a single respiratory virus, Sheera Frenkel has penned what may be the publication’s most embarrassing article to date: A full-on hit piece against parents whose politics changed during COVID out of antipathy to school closures
READ MORE
Family, Not Preschool, Is the Secret to Good Education 9
- Education, Family
- August 2, 2022
“I was so worried my son wouldn’t pass his kindergarten entrance exam,” one of my friends recently told me, noting that he hadn’t attended preschool. “That is my pet peeve!” another friend sputtered at the mention of preschool. She had noticed that many schools today want to make sure kids know their letters before entering
READ MORE