Tag: schools
Seeing as how I’m an education dinosaur, having taught for the past 32 years, I’ve seen many a fad, meme, phase and reform come and go during my career. Each of these aforesaid events was billed as the new reality…
I have no clue why guns should be allowed in schools. We all know they’re not going to learn anything, but Republicans obviously think guns will benefit somehow if they’re allowed in schools. Or maybe it’s the NRA that benefits….
It might be summer, but the education know-nothings are clearly not at the beach. The latest case-in-point is former CNN correspondent Campbell Brown’s incredibly uninformed comments on teacher tenure that, unfortunately, millions of people saw and didn’t stick around for…
Besides Rush Limbaugh, this other guy is a total basket case. He is the same one who said that bringing more guns on school grounds would reduce the amount of kids murdered. He is also the same guy who said…
Remember when Joe Clark was the face of educational reform? The former Principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, NJ patrolled the hallways of his out-of-control institution in the 1980s with only a bullhorn and a baseball bat, fighting poverty,…
This article originally appeared on my blog at: anjfarmer.blogspot.com Sometimes an idea, or set of ideas, comes along that’s so clear and sensible, it makes you stop and wonder why we haven’t implemented it. Then again, some ideas are so…
We normally allow idiotic statements from Republican presidential candidates to fall by the way side. Not every foolish phrase they make needs coverage. Take for example; Michele Bachmann. If we covered every silly statement Bachmann made, EzKool would single-handedly reduce…