Meth and marijuana aren’t the only drugs parents worry about. The problems caused by prescription combinations called “drug cocktails” have finally broken into the national news stream.
Continue reading →With all the public discussion about the values voters (whether they would vote in the 2006 election or stay home), the underlying (and still unanswered) question is, what is the role of government in defining our culture?
Continue reading →Recent studies show that eleven percent of American children and adolescents are obese, and one in three is overweight.
Continue reading →It’s a serious matter when a good kid is expelled from school, suspended, or sent to a detention facility to take classes with real delinquents.
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New York City schoolchildren start this fall’s classes at a cost to the taxpayers of $11,000 per pupil. They will eat more school lunches (800,000) than any institution except the armed forces and ride on more buses than the city’s public transportation system.
Continue reading →The atheists overplayed their hand. After their string of victories banning prayer and the Ten Commandments, they must have thought the time was ripe to get rid of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Continue reading →Public schools seem to be obsessed with requiring students to fill out nosy questionnaires. The latest outrage, entitled “How Am I?”, asked 55 intrusive questions of New Jersey 7th and 8th graders.
Continue reading →Behind frequent protestations by public officials about local control of the schools, a federal curriculum has been quietly imposed by law.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration has adopted the approach proclaimed by Bill Clinton in a speech in Chicago on January 22, 1997: “We can no longer hide behind our love of local control of the schools.”
Continue reading →Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes.
Continue reading →A teacher re-certification system, under which public school teachers take special “development” courses to boost their knowledge and teaching skills, was started a year ago in Illinois.
Continue reading →Santa Rosa (CA) High School held a “Week of Diversity” on April 9-13 that included 82 presentations by outside speakers. The announcement letter sent to parents permitted them to opt out their children, but said the event was “essential to the exposure and understanding of important topics and teen issues not normally taught in our public school system.”
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