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I voted early. Here’s what I didn’t vote for
Not “who” I didn’t vote for, but what. As always, innundated with campaign brochures — my Congressional district has lots of people on the ballot — I developed a way of absorbing and evaluating certain attributes and ideas of candidates … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Lawyers, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged charisma, charter schools, doppelganger., political campaigns, political dilettantes, political endorsements, public school education, teachers unions, unions
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Educating our children: not the way to do it
I’m so vehemently opposed to the deceit of “charter schools” (translation: pseudo private schools — some of them profit-making — which con parents and steal money from public school education), I read this, first on Twitter, and went nuts. So … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged 538 Significant Digits, charter schools, Jeff Bezos, public school education, Twitter
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The god problem: fundamentalist religion, always bad
A fascinating opinion piece in the Times today from Shulem Deen, a guy who grew up a Hasidic Jew, left the cult and now has exposed the wretchedness of it, specifically in its conscientious obstruction to a general, decent education. … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged Betsy DeVos, Hasidic eductiion, Hasidism, public school education, Shulem Deen, Yeshiva education
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