It’s shades of the Glenbrook Girls all over again, only the new girls from hell are so proud of what they’re doing that they’re uploading the videos to the Internet. Last month in New Jersey, a girl was stalked and deliberately attacked by multiple female schoolmates and beaten outside a school gym. “It was brutal,”…
Category: Education
No Tag? Schools Are Idiots…
I was going to let pass the latest bit of stupidity on the part of some of our nation’s so-called institutes of learning, but Frank Deford’s silver-tongued skewering of overly sensitive school administrators made me mad all over again. This CNN article first caught my eye a week or so back. Here’s another article from…
Math Study Results
Many studies and exams have demonstrated that American students are at best second-rate. Here’s another one. The crux of it: Forty percent of U.S. eighth-grade students believe they do well in math, far higher than the 4 percent of Japanese students and 6 percent of Korean students.However, U.S. students scored much worse than their counterparts…
A Female-only College No More
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College is going co-ed, to the dismay of its students. It’s amusing as hell that chicks broke down the door at the Citadel and virtually every other males-only organization in the country but now whine when the shoe they threw drops on them.
Turnabout is Fair Play
Prairie View A&M, a Texas college primarily attended by black students, is feeling the pain of integration. I have to laugh at this section: As more white and Hispanic students are attending Prairie View A&M, reflecting a trend at the nation’s 120 historically black colleges and universities, there is a sense that the land-grant institution…
Do the Math, People (If You Can)
From the Houston Chronicle: Credit card companies want it both ways: strict bankruptcy laws but no mandate to disclose how much all that credit is costing consumers. If the newly wed Smiths charge $1,000 to a 13 percent credit card to finance a week-long honeymoon, then pay only the 2 percent minimum monthly payment, it…
Students’ Esteem Empty
Marlene Zuk wrote a great article about students and self-esteem that’s right on the money. Here it is in all its glory (I want to make sure it lives on here even if nowhere else – it’s that good): ”IS this one right?” The student points to a line on a test paper and peers…
Black Achievement Levels
William Raspberry must have bit his tongue to make as much sense as this.
Teacher Calls Teenager ‘Monkey’, Gets Fired
This happened in Longview, Texas. With an administration as supportive of its educators as this unlucky school district, it’s not surprising that the Texas education system is among the worst in the nation. How can otherwise rational, responsible people be moved to make such inane decisions? The last thing that needs to be done is…
News of the Stupid
From just up the road, a high school boy was expelled from school for sharing his asthma inhaler with his girlfrend who uses the same prescription. I hate to say it, what with all of the educators in my family, but this is exactly the kind of stupidity that happens within a closed government-run system….