Public Schools

    A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste, When, After All, You Can Simply Corrupt it Instead

    By: mailloux (Diary)  |  June 25th at 12:26 AM  | 

    It’s Provincetown, Massachusetts, and that alone certainly explains a lot. It’s a bastion of progressive, leftist thinking . . . especially progressive, leftist thinking with regard to sexuality. Provincetown, at least among leftists, is a model of sexual liberation and tolerance that serves as a shining example of what America should be. Provincetown has a public school system there to educate the young, and a | Read More »

    Isms in the Age of Obama and their Means of Transmission, the Public School Monopoly

    By: mailloux (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 12:42 PM  | 

    The news lately has served up plenty of reasons to think about education and public schools, and what it all fits into. We have seen Obama call for increasing the school year or the length of the school day. There was his “stay-in-school-and-study-hard” speech, with its concomitant pro-Obama (i.e. what can you do for the president?) study guide. Then, of course there are the seemingly | Read More »

    September 24, 2009: a Grave Evil Juxtaposes Agape, the Story of Derrion Albert

    By: mailloux (Diary)  |  September 29th at 12:12 PM  | 

    Derrion Albert was a 16 year old honor student in a Chicago public school. The operative words in the latter sentence are:  Was, Honor Student, And Public School “WAS” On September 24th, 2009, Derrion was beaten to death by rival gangs as he tried to make his way home. He was said to be an innocent bystander caught up in a violent melee that broke | Read More »

    Realms of Obama: Under the Bus and in the Bus Too

    By: mailloux (Diary)  |  September 28th at 12:18 PM  | 

    We are all familiar with Obama’s habit of tossing former confidants, advisors, and friends under the bus whenever it suits him. Those times typically being whenever he feels that some association may tarnish his image as secular messiah. It’s gotten pretty crowded under Obama’s bus, but his ‘purges’ are pretty well known, surprisingly well accepted by the public, and hence, old news. Much more important | Read More »