I have a running joke with the homeschool kids I teach in our local high school co-op: every single book I teach in their literature classes has been banned somewhere, sometime, for some reason. Because they’re teenagers, they are always a bit shocked (and not-so-secretly thrilled) to learn they are entering the illicit world of…
With the increase in technological advancement, online education is also emerging at a rapid pace. Education was never so easy and accessible as it is now with the help of internet technology. It is more convenient, less costly, and flexible enough. Online learning enables you to enjoy the perks of getting admission to high-ranked universities…
Imagine yourself walking into a café one morning and, after being shown to a seat by the waiter, you order a basic latte. However, he tells you that there is nothing available but green tea. Confused, you decide to leave because you are not able to order what you want. Then, the waiter tells you…
Mandatory teaching standards that focus on critical theory and identity politics to the detriment of liberalism and individualism are already working their way through state legislatures. Now, math education itself has been deemed “racist.” A group of educators just released a document calling for a transformation of math education that focuses on “dismantling white supremacy…
This article started out to be a well-researched effort to identify all the legal avenues available to parents to force teachers unions and the teachers we pay every week back to teaching our children in a classroom. My research found there is very little that parents/taxpayers can do to make teachers work for their money….
The other day as my son got into the car at the ice rink, he was really grinding his gears. When I asked what was bothering him, he went off about a conversation he’d had with a woman on the ice during the public skating session. After watching him jump and spin for a bit,…
The pandemic has shaken the foundations of American education to the core. Students have been shifted to online schooling or alternative learning methods with no notice. People are trying to make due, but what this is showing parents is that the education system is inadequate. This is no shock, considering most people were dissatisfied with…
Editor’s Note: Over the past pandemic year, parents have been involuntarily thrust into schooling at home. Many have chosen to continue educating at home voluntarily as they have watched government schools failing their children. During this time, many veteran homeschoolers have stepped up, offering advice and resources to these families. Gina Prosch is a homeschool…
Mary Margaret Olohan on October 12, 2020 Schools have not become the super-spreaders that officials feared, according to Brown University economist Emily Oster. “It’s now October,” Oster wrote in an Atlantic op-ed. “We are starting to get an evidence-based picture of how school reopenings and remote learning are going (those photos of hallways don’t count),…
Kaylee Greenlee on September 14, 2020 On the first day of classes, a high school teacher in Westchester County issued an assignment that included a comic style strip comparing police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members, the New York Post reported. The assignment was part of a chapter on “European Colonization of…