Obama 101

By: Theosebes
I remember being taught as a little girl to love the Lord God and serve Him only.  I remember standing with my fellow classmates each morning, hand over my heart, saying with respect for each word, “I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which [...]

Court: U.S. High Schoolers Should Speak English

By Theosebes

Chad Groening – OneNewsNow – 8/4/2009 6:40:00 AM
An English language advocacy organization is praising the decision of a California appeals court, which upheld the right of the state to administer academic achievement tests and high school exit exams only in English.
Last week, the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected arguments that [...]

After the Pain of Change, the Human Spirit Acts

By Gayle Plato
I stood in my yard, September, 2007, North Phoenix, AZ, next to our realtor, my husband, and looked down the street. The neighbors had just listed for 70,000 dollars less; I knew we were not going to sell with any equity.  At that moment reality hit me; every aspect of my life changed [...]

Summertime, Summertime, Sum, Sum, Summertime

By: Theosebes

Reading, writing and arithmetic will be taking their summer break in a few weeks time. California teachers specifically may be looking for places to teach the “Three R’s” due to the inability of the State Legislature to do the needed reading, writing and arithmetic required of California school children, in the jobs they were elected to do.

Fortunately the voting population of California was able to handle the verbiage in the propositions and crunch the numbers in a realistic manner, in order to send a message to Sacramento that the fools are not the voters of California, but the members of the State Legislature who seem unable to do basic math while trying to hide this inability to balance a budget in flowery, legal language.

Though the California budget is complicated, the idea that cutting waste and spending is not.

Obama and Sex Education

By Dr. Brian Russell
As you may have heard, {then} presidential candidate Barack Obama endorsed guidelines published by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) for “age-appropriate” sex education in public schools, while some media outlets reported that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin opposed, “sex education” in public schools. (And by the way, when reporting Palin’s stance on sex ed, they liked to throw in the fact of her 17-year-old daughter’s pregnancy, suggesting that sex ed would’ve prevented the pregnancy, but there’s no good data to support that conclusion.)

Why Homeschoolers Win Spelling Bees

By Texasholly
We are into week 42 of summer in my head.  In real life it is closer to week 5.

BUT because I am an extremely attentive mother or thrive on cheap and easy entertainment the boys all do about 45 minutes of “schoolwork” prior to any DS, TV or Wii.
It is cruel and unusual around [...]

Home Schooling Families Taste Victory

By Theosebes
This week, Susan E. Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations made a visit along with UNICEF to a classroom at the Harlem Children’s Zone. She spoke with an audience of eighth and ninth graders about volunteerism and shared that she hoped they would have similar opportunities to engage with [...]