I am an educator. I have retired from the classroom (actually the school library), but I continue to teach as a Sunday School teacher and through this blog. Educators are on the front line in the ongoing war against ignorance. The battle used to be a relatively gentle one. Every new class of children and … Read more
Right-wing propagandists like to push people’s buttons. Their favorite button to push is fear. If Democrats and the political left can be accused of harming innocent schoolchildren, the propagandists can be sure to get the angry, hysterical response they love to create. Critical race theory (CRT) has become a new boogie man for people unwilling … Read more
Delusion – A fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact. (Dictionary.com) You know these people – at work, in your family, in your church congregation. They will firmly tell you that Joe Biden “stole” the 2020 election. They will tell you that climate change is a hoax. Some of … Read more
Some people, especially people who consider themselves Christians, are essentially one-issue voters. They may have other concerns such as jobs, health care, and the education of their children, but this one issue, abortion, they consider to be so very serious that they will vote against their own best interests on other issues in order to … Read more
The pandemic spread of the 2020 novel coronavirus, with its attendant “stay at home” mandates, has caused many adults to be more directly involved with their children than perhaps they were used to. In particular, the closure of schools has both kept the kids home and shifted a major portion of educating them to their … Read more