This award winning teacher has resigned due to student’s behavior improvement numbers being massaged. It would seem that the administration of the schools wants to smooth over a real crisis. They don’t want disruptive students sent to the office.
Tag: current events
Coming soon, to your neighborhood..a data center
The more I hear of these, the more apprehensive I become. Nobody asked us, nobody told us, and all of a sudden these are cropping up everywhere. What happened to their climate worries–the water shortages? Money talks. This makes me very pessimistic.
The dark side of New Jersey –perhaps the most polluted state in the country
This is a little long, but it is the sad reality of New Jersey. We are almost the smallest state in the union, yet we are the most polluted. Efforts are being made, but the harm already done, and the ongoing harm until the messes are cleaned up are shocking and frightening.
More on those water cyber attacks
Flash leprosy on the rise in Florida, but don’t worry
Don’t be alarmed. It takes a long time and is easily treated with antibiotics. It’s a rather scary headline, though.
Transgender paper dolls to be used in Minnesota schools? I don’t know.
After listening to this news release, I am very confused. Nobody seems to know when or where these “dolls” will be used. It might be that they were trying to sneak it in, and somebody blew a whistle, but nobody seems to know anything about this program. Not me (says everyone). We will just have to keep an eye on it, if possible. The fact that they were going to use them with children as young as four years of age stinks to high heaven.
Mystery disease affecting Colorado River rafters. .. this is interesting
That hi-rise is still on the verge of a collapse
Who in their right mind would ever want to live there now? Even if it gets “fixed”, there would be serious doubts.
The Courage of Old Age REPRINT
From July 2, 2020
The Athenian lawgiver, Solon, lived to see his laws broken and his city fall into the hands of a tyrant named Pisistratus. Solon came out of retirement and took every opportunity to criticize Pisistratus, tear into his policies, and oppose him in every way he could.
Horrified, his friends asked him what gave him the courage to oppose the tyrant.
“My old age!” said Solon.
He was right, you know. And we who are today’s elderly ought to look to his example.
We’ve already lived most of our lives, so they can’t take that away from us.
We may not be physically up to marching in a demonstration, but we’re not too weak to say “Get lost!”
We may not be strong enough to fight it out on the streets; but we can absolutely refuse to say the things they want us to say, believe the things they try to force us to believe, and worship the idols they demand we worship. We have read the Bible. We remember Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
If they can’t make us, in our old age and our weakness, bow down to them, how will they control our sons and daughters?
And we can pray, and God will hear us. He can shut this bad stuff down whenever He pleases: the date for that is already on His calendar.
We say with Winston Churchill, “Never, never, never, never give in.”
Lost child found alive–she walked five miles..
A happy ending for what could have been a tragedy.