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Sine of the Times

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The front page of today’s Metro section of the Dallas Morning News has a series of photographs of billboards, posters, and signs found throughout Dallas — all with glaring spelling and/or grammatical errors. A generation of our people have scraped through our public schools and have entered the workforce without knowing how to write (or spell, or read, or balance a checkbook, etc). Clearly, something in our education system is broken! More to come…. Continue reading Sine of the Times

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The Educator’s Candidate

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Education — education is the civil rights issue of this century. Equal access to public education has been gained, but what is the value of access to a failing school? We need…We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice. Let’s remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers, and help bad teachers find another line of work. When a public school fails to meet its obligations to students, parent — when it fails to meet its obligations to students, parents deserve a choice in the education of their children. And I intend … Continue reading The Educator’s Candidate

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Up on my Soap Box Again

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Here’s a curiosity: in my circle of homeschoolers, there are more former classroom teachers than there are not.   One of my homeschool friends is married to a Christian middle school principal. Why is it that some many of us in the teaching profession have chosen to stay home and be teachers to our own children?  The partial answer to that question can be found on the front page of today’s Dallas Morning News. The Dallas ISD has sent down from on high the new grading rules for the next school year.  In a nutshell, these rules proclaim that: Students who … Continue reading Up on my Soap Box Again

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The In-Between Times

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It’s been several days since my last post.  A late winter cold that ran through the rest of the family before hitting me turned into full blown bronchitis.  Today I am rejoicing because I feel almost normal!  The sun is shining with that almost too-bright quality that I’ve found to be so pervasive here in north Texas with the temperature in the 60s. My daughter had an easter egg hunt this morning.  When every egg had been found (within about three minutes!), Cadi noticed a stark before/after view of the field.  I am continually amazed at how the Lord speaks … Continue reading The In-Between Times

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Homeschool Musings

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When I first got my degree in elementary education several years ago (we won’t dwell on how long ago THAT was!), I never in a million years dreamed I would one day be a homeschool parent. After all, my college professors spent hours teaching me education theory and philosophies and discipline strategies and lesson plan formats. I put together a notebook for one class that detailed thirty ways to teach vocabulary words. I learned how to spot common error patterns in math and memorized ways to correct those errors. I learned the science of how a child acquires language and … Continue reading Homeschool Musings