Thanksgiving Thoughts, 2020
Every Thanksgiving, I take the time to pause and reflect on my life. So much of what I write here …
Tag Archives: Mark Twain
School Attacks 2020, #1: Saving Lives?
This the first of a series I update each school year in the hope parents across America will demand their school …
#wrongtrump: Surprised?
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at …
Defunding School Police: Feeling Safe From Reality
Imagine, gentle readers, you’re a leftist. Imagine further you’re an educator, but not an actual teacher. You’re an educrat, an …
Belaboring The Bee: All They Have To Do Is Not Be Crazy
Every year, I teach Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to my 11th grade students. No one can know American literature without knowing …
The Ongoing(?) Mission
How to destroy education–and ultimately, the country–in one easy lesson: abandon its mission.
Facilitating Stupidity, And Our Own Destruction
Regular readers know that I often try to educate the public about dangerous trends in public, K-12 education. Education is, …
School Attacks On The Rise?
Do you recall, gentle readers, the missing children on milk cartons craze of the early 1980s? Wild numbers were bandied …
The Tyranny Of Testing, Part 5, 2019
In the first four articles in this series (enter “testing tyranny 2019″ in the SMM homepage search bar) I explored …
Reading: The Preservation Of Civilization
E-books vs. real books: aren’t e-books trendier and better? As regular readers know, I am not a fan of “technology” …
Serena Williams: Older Every year–UPDATED
We are often told, in response to the slightest criticism of professional sports, about the nobility of the game, whichever …
Comic Writings, 2018
Every year I collect the inadvertently funny things my students write. One might be tempted to think these linguistic train wrecks …
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Dumped In Duluth
In June of 2013, I wrote A Word By Any Other Name Would Enrage As Sweet-ly, an article about those …
School Attacks: Saving Lives Or Saving Face, Part 1–2017
This article, which first ran on March 07, 2012, and was most recently updated in August of 2016, is the …
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