Stephan Barr at the Washington Post has a column on those who were heroes during Hurricane Katrina last fall. As cynical as we all are and as easy as it is to get all worked up over all that goes wrong in this world, I think it’s very important to take time to remember that there are good people doing good things as well. Take … Continue reading Hurricane Katrina Heroes

Perhaps you have heard about it by now (there appears to be a well co-ordinated publicity machine at work), but there’s a new book out by Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News called “Crunchy Conservatism”. The National Review Online even has a blog/book group discussion about the book going on here. (The discussion right now seems a bit esoteric, but there are some definite … Continue reading Crunchy Conservatism

While I know that there are individual teachers, and perhaps even administrators in the school systems who care deeply about the needs of the students they teach, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the bureaucracy as a whole expect our children to fit their needs rather than the other way around. The examples are legion, but here’s one more: high school kids eating … Continue reading Kids serving the needs of the schools

For some reason, the comment button seems to be disappearing on a regular basis from my blog. I have contacted the code masters at blogspot for help with this, but haven’t heard back from them yet. However, it appears that if you click on the comments link [ie 0 comments], there is a section where you can leave a comment. If you can’t get this … Continue reading Problem with comment button

Spunky Homeschool has a post up this morning about the education department’s efforts to get involved in setting standards by which colleges can be evaluated in order to make them more effective. She’s not a fan of testing, but I do agree that colleges need to have transparent measures of success that people can see what they can expect to get for their time and … Continue reading College, funding and accountability

The other day I was driving and thinking about how upside down our world seems to me. It’s been said to the point of being cliche and meaningless words, but when even the idea of the desirability of family, marriage and faith is seen as questionable it’s hard to see how this can be a good thing for us and our children. Even those who … Continue reading A prayer and (I hope) an answer for our world

It will probably be a while before anyone actually reads this, but I suppose one must start somewhere. My reasons for starting this blog are several.First, I just wanted someplace to dump things running through my brain. Like when a 6 year old little boy is pointlessly accused of sexual harassment, I can dump it here rather than wracking my brain to think of who … Continue reading To begin . . .