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Itching Ears Want To Hear

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Texas state Representative Joe Deshotel wants to use taxpayer money to pay kids who make good grades in school.  Not every kid, of course.  Just the ones attending low-performing schools.  He proposed to use stimulus money to shell out $50 per kid per A for the “core” subjects — English, math, science and social studies.  Students who make Bs would get $35 per grade and those who make Cs would get a mere $20.  (see story here).  Hmm.  Maybe I should go back to high school!  What ever happened to earning an education? It’s just another case of the ABCs … Continue reading Itching Ears Want To Hear

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ABCs flying out the window

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Now, granted. I am not a lawyer. I am not a senator and am especially not the president of a country. However, I am an American educator. I even have the credentials to prove it. Yup. I’ve been to the grand old university and learned lots of useless facts and figures. The very best training I received was on-the-job. I read everything there was in print about managing classroom behavior and educational theory…but I didn’t have a clue how to hold the interest and attention of a rowdy group of six year olds. The teacher books didn’t tell me what … Continue reading ABCs flying out the window

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Life, the universe, (homeschooling, the economy) and everything

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I think it’s been over a week since my last post.  Life has been crazy with a multitude of adjustments.  My daughter did not have to have surgery on her arm, but she did have to have a new cast, which induced lots of tears pouring and steam pouring out of ears — and that’s just with me!  The new-cast-process ended with another x-ray and a nurse practitioner shouting out to us as they were herding us out that “the bones might have shifted a bit but I think they’re okay.” I literally had a sleepless night, worrying that the … Continue reading Life, the universe, (homeschooling, the economy) and everything

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Do You “Believe In” Evolution?

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I was taught in Texas public schools about the THEORY of evolution. The teaching of it included some alternate viewpoints from scientists (not religious viewpoints) that pointed out its weaknesses. For example, there is that annoying absence in the fossil record documenting the supposed evolution of one species to another. Oh, and also the fact that Darwin himself, in his introduction to Origin of Species, concluded this: “I am well aware that there is scarcely a single point discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced (proven, or explained), often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those … Continue reading Do You “Believe In” Evolution?

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Merry Winter, Everyone!

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Classrooms in public schools all over the nation are hosting parties today in celebration of Christ’s birth.  Uh, make that in celebration of Winter.  First they changed the name of the parties from “Christmas Party” to “Holiday Party” because the school boards were afraid of getting slapped with lawsuits crying out that the (nonexistent) separation-of-church-and-state clause had been violated.  Now it seems that even the word “Holiday” smacks of too much religion, and schools everywhere have once again capitulated to the lawsuit bringers and are calling it Winter Break. This is one of the main reasons my own child is … Continue reading Merry Winter, Everyone!