Category: education

The Constitution Is the Answer

Commentary September 17th is the day that we reserve for honoring our Constitution. The day was codified in 1917 when many people rightly feared that the country was losing its appreciation for its merits. Did you celebrate the day last Saturday? I’m afraid that many people did not. This is surely not something that is…


Radical New Curriculum a Factor that Drove Maryland History Teacher to Quit

A dream career as a high school social studies teacher in Maryland’s upscale Montgomery County ended this summer when Brenda Diaz saw the school’s new curriculum. The new content was “insidious, deceitful, and divisive,” said Diaz. The tenured teacher with seven years of teaching experience in the county said that the Covid mandates also were…


What’s Really at Stake in Alberta’s Curriculum Controversy

Commentary  A lengthy furor over Alberta’s plans to put greater emphasis on facts and memorization in provincial schools has not abated with the start of the new school year. In March 2021, Premier Jason Kenney’s government announced its intention to remake the entire kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum all at once. This ambitious undertaking marked…


National Suicide by Education

Commentary It’s true that children are our future, for good or ill, depending on their education. Ill-educate children, as we are doing in the United States and Canada, and the result will be cultural decay, social breakdown, and political decline. We now teach our children that our country is illegitimate, based on genocide and racism,…


House GOP Investigates Schools for Using COVID-19 Funds to Pad District Administration, Teach Leftist Ideology

House Republicans on the Oversight and Reform Committee and the Education and Labor Committee are looking into the misuse of COVID-19 relief funds at schools, specifically in funding divisive racial teachings like critical race theory (CRT). Congress created the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund to ensure that schools reopened safely and addressed…


Michael Zwaagstra: The Problem With Pushing Woke Ideology in Schools

Commentary If you’ve been around for a while, you probably remember the phrase “politically correct.” Being called politically correct was not a compliment. Rather, it meant that you had an unhealthy obsession with not offending anyone, even if you had to say some rather silly things in the process. For example, instead of saying husband…


The Secret Curriculum

Commentary School is starting, but don’t count on getting answers about what your child is being taught. School administrators commonly lie or give parents the runaround. That explains the fireworks over Jeremy Boland, a Greenwich, Connecticut, elementary school assistant principal, bragging about how the school pushes kids to think in a “progressive” way that he…


‘Pornography for Kids’: BC Parent and Trustee Condemn Objectionable Books in Schools

A father and a school trustee from British Columbia are sounding the alarm on books in schools they say are of concern due to their explicit sexual content. Pierre Barns, a father from Abbotsford, B.C., first had concerns when his daughter brought home a book from school he found objectionable. After inquiries to her school on…


‘Pornography for Kids’: BC Parent and Trustee Condemn Sexually Explicit Books in Schools

A father and a school trustee from British Columbia are sounding the alarm on books in schools they say are of concern due to their explicit sexual content. Pierre Barns, a father from Abbotsford, B.C., first had concerns when his daughter brought home a book from school he found objectionable. After inquiries to her school on…


Biden Admin Provides $100 Million for Apprenticeships to Fill Teaching Workforce Gaps

The Biden administration this week announced over $100 million in grants to address school staff shortages and high turnover rates by lifting pay and funding teacher apprenticeships from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. As the 2022–2023 school year begins, schools in the United States are struggling to fill vacancies for teachers and other school…