Category Archives: humor

Dana’s terible, horrible, no good, very bad day

So, yeah. Today was not such a good day. But to understand, perhaps we need to go back a few days. To the end of last week. When I joyfully announced we were ahead of my plans for history. And I asked mouse what she would like to learn between [...]

Passing stereotypes as fact

An exemplary piece of writing appeared in the Daily Titan, a paper run by students of California State University at Fullerton. I say exemplary because it would have been posted as an example of how not to write by my high school journalism teacher whose infamous red pen often doubled the weight of pages [...]

Ok, now it is time to panic

In a startling development in California, a special task force consisting of SWAT teams and truancy officers has been developed, virtually overnight, targeting homeschool families.
Originally thought to be a logistical nightmare, distinguishing home-schooled children from that of the public school system, officials quickly learned they could gather up a list of suspects from last year’s [...]

HNW–Broken Education News

Broken Education News
Secret to Asian school success
Building work ethic and bravery one window at a time
Simple fact-checking gone awry
Vermont High School humiliated by reporters
HNW Economic Update
NJ Schools Rejecting US Currency
Eighth graders served detention for…paying in cash
Lost and Found
A heart wrenching tale of love lost…and found
Raising the Bar
Eight year old’s test score prompts federal [...]

Proposed: A bill to eliminate abuse by teachers

Because there is anecdotal evidence that not all teachers are providing adequate instruction in our common schools, I hereby introduce the following bill. As I did the research for this bill I was shocked not only by the fact that situations like this can and actually do occur in public schools, but that there [...]

The life and death of homeschooling, a eulogy

Homeschool advocates are going to find it increasingly difficult to respond to public criticism should many more articles of this caliber be published. Since the reasoning is impeccable, I am left with no alternative but to present the eulogy for homeschooling. Goodbye, my love, goodbye.

Educators, parents, students, lend me your ears;
I come [...]

Respecting your time: Ten not so respectful answers

I’ve heard of this problem before. You are home, not doing anything anyway, and therefore fair game to be volunteered for every activity under the sun. I used to do it to my mom all the time. But now it is Life on the Planet who needs some answers.
Why is it [...]

How educrats see others

And now for a comedic interlude:

More education-related cartoons at Weapons of Math Destruction.
Via matthewktabor.com

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