Category Archives: Academia and Other Nonsense

Well, if you have school aged children you probably don’t. And here is yet another reason why: A 33 year old high school music teacher diddles an 18 year old student on school grounds and the Washington Education Association writes … Continue reading →

That is the beginning of the end of the NEA Nearly nine out of ten Oregon residents would send their children to private, charter, or virtual schools, or educate their children in a home school setting if they had the … Continue reading →

It seems that the propaganda is wearing off Debate ran high within Barack Obama’s transition team over whether the next secretary of Education should be a traditionalist in sync with the national teachers’ unions or a reformer who will help … Continue reading →

The schools are there to teach the little youngins to rely on the police for all their defensive needs. Not to fight for themselves Georgetown officials are considering a plan that would have fourth- and fifth-graders trained to help fight … Continue reading →

In Seattle. The Seattle School District has come out with the facilities to be closed to keep themselves at least close to “Within Budget” and the utterly disturbing African American Academy is on the chopping block. I’ve posted about the … Continue reading →

Big Academia in Washington is about to take a (s)hit. 20% Cuts May Be Ahead for State Colleges, Universities Just a few months ago, the University of Washington was celebrating the end of a huge, successful fundraising campaign and was … Continue reading →

Michael Duffy writes of surprise in the Sydney Morning Herald Last month I witnessed something shocking. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was giving a talk at the University of NSW. The talk was accompanied by … Continue reading →

If a socialist system of laws falls in the forest and no one cares, does it make a sound? Judges around the world have long looked to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court for guidance, citing and often … Continue reading →

Hey, at least I’m not talking about revoking his breathing license. Fed up with his students’ complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept “variant spellings” as legitimate. Rather than … Continue reading →