NY Post: What is FAFO parenting? This latest trend encourages ‘natural consequences’
WSJ: Goodbye Gentle Parenting, Hello ‘F—Around and Find Out’
Gen Z has a clever approach that might work.
These two articles explain FAFO parenting. It used to just be called parenting.
Rahm Emanuel was on Megyn Kelly’s show last night. He is an old-school Democrat who doesn’t sound crazy. He used to be in Congress and was the mayor of Chicago.
Emanuel was talking about education, and was listing his four policies. “T is for technology…A is for attendance…..R is for reading…”
Rahm talks a lot, but he had my attention. Where is he going with this? If the fourth item is “D is for discipline”, he might get my vote.
Rahm Emanuel’s Technology, Attendance, Reading and Discipline policy.
When I worked at Caterpillar, my division had a facility in Leicester, England. Working internationally, there is the time difference to accommodate, but also a holiday difference.
Why Didn’t We Know Randi Weingarten Was a DNC Member?
Teacher unions are practically a wing of the Democratic Party. No, it’s worse. Teacher unions are actually a wing of the Democratic Party. The heads of both national teacher unions, the AFT and the NEA, were actual members of the Democratic National Committee. It’s news that Randi Weingarten, the head of the AFT, resigned from the DNC because nobody knew she was a member.
‘Mississippi miracle’: Kids’ reading scores have soared in Deep South states
Education snobs like making fun of Alabama, Mississippi and the South in general. They hate that Mississippi is leading the nation on the NAEP. The numbers have been jiggered.
Harvard’s president says the school will ‘not compromise’ on its rights with the Trump admin
That’s fine, if I were Harvard, I wouldn’t want the government pushing me around. Money comes with strings attached, so if Harvard wants to be independent, don’t accept a half-billion dollars from the government each year.
About half of Americans pay income tax. That means that I pay Harvard $3 per year. I get nothing from that, and don’t want to do it.
Harvard has $50 billion in the bank, and is tax-exempt. That should be enough.
Ohio Senator, Al Cutrona’s new bill would create a model curriculum based on the success sequence.
Our feckless state legislature is goofing around, rather than doing real work. The “Success Sequence” is graduate high school, get a job, get married and have kids. If a person does those things in that order, life will probably work out. Continue reading
I taught Physics for 25 years at two nicer school districts and was an instructor for 15 years at an academic summer camp for genius children. There is objective evidence that I was an excellent teacher. Also, I can discuss education forever, so an effort will be made to keep this post limited to the federal Department of Education.
The budget for the federal Department of Education (DoED), is 268 billion dollars. There are 54 million students in k-12 schools. The DoED spends $5000 per student, but doesn’t have any students.
These are my students on our field trip to Cedar Point for Physics Day in 2011. They are all weird in their own way. I picked the year at random, because it doesn’t matter.
Bill Gates makes a good point about students being over diagnosed, labeled and medicated.
A few weeks ago, I started watching the Popcorn In Bed Youtube channel. It’s a reaction channel featuring two cute blondes watching movies. The movies are chosen by member surveys and are generally very good. The channel is an easy way to watch a familiar movie in a half-hour rather than a couple of hours.
The two women are charming, and started the channel with virtually no knowledge of movies. Initially, they weren’t familiar with actors such as Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis. They don’t know much about history or other topics that might be considered “common knowledge”. It’s usually cute, but occasionally astounding.
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