Testing Time…
The school year is drawing to a close. It’s always a bittersweet time. It is good to bring the year …
Category Archives: Education
The “Chicago Way” Transplanted to New York
From time to time, I run across behavior in my chosen field–education–that is embarrassing. It makes me ashamed to be …
The Threat Never Diminishes
As regular readers know, I advocate, under proper conditions, the arming of school staff to protect their lives and the …
Education: Deconstructing Deconstructionism
My favorite Bookworm recently posted an article griping about–gasp!–English teachers, titled “A Gripe About English Teachers.” As a teacher of …
Education: The Abandonment of Cursive Writing
Robert Baier, a forensic document examiner, recently wrote a piece on penmanship for Fox News focusing on an interesting question: should …
Administrative Cowardice and Confusion
Many years ago, during my SWAT days, a “troubled youth” brought a shotgun to a local high school and took …
Epidemic Of Idiocy Spreads To Near Nation’s Capitol!
Or perhaps that’s where it originates… The sickness continues to spread, gentle readers. In this case, a fifth grader—a 10 …
National Stupid Epidemic Spreads To Colorado and Arizona!
In what seems to be yet another manifestation of a national epidemic of lunacy affecting educators, an outbreak occurred in …
Tiny Terrorist Returns To School!
There is mixed news out of Sumter, South Carolina. On February 1, Sumter School district Superintendent Dr. Randolph Bynum reversed …
It Has Spread to South Carolina!
In the aftermath of mass shootings like the murders in Newtown, Connecticut, one can expect two things with the certainty …
Stark Raving Mad?
What is it about Pennsylvania and Maryland these days? Has every educator in those states gone stark, raving mad? So …
The Sublime And The Idiotic
This is yet another example of educators gone wild, and no, you almost certainly do not want to see a …
Education: Bibles and Bang Bang
I am a frequent critic of idiocy in public education, and there is surely more than enough to go around. …
Stomping In Bad Company
It’s time for a brief respite from the lunacy and treasonous intentions of those who are doing their best to …
