@SenSanders Actually we just need people to stop treating school like day care and take it seriously. And clearly you never took your economics teachers seriously.
It’s not that we have a mental health crisis - though that doesn’t help - it’s that we have a soul-level sickness eating away at a sizable percentage of our population. We have a problem of evil. We don’t need fewer guns or more therapy; we need an exorcism, an awakening, which can only happen through Christ.
In the meantime, it should be priority number 1 for the Trump admin to find every radical, pro-violence activist cell and shut them down without mercy.
Every clock change reminds me how dysfunctional Congress is.
I grew up in Arizona—we skip daylight saving time, and frankly, that feels like good governance.
This year? Forget the clocks.
Just fund the government.
@thewahl Ah yes—but it will not be any of the text books that College Board recommends. Personally love Land of Hope by Wilfred M. McClay or the two-volume American history textbook by Thomas Kidd.
“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.” 1 Timothy 2:5
My wife and I (both teachers) were talking last night about how much we had to teach ourselves about teaching AFTER finishing our teacher training. We both landed somewhere between 'most' and 'basically everything.'
We also talked about how much of what we WERE taught was total BS, and we both landed somewhere between 'most' and 'basically all of it.'
Teacher education is a brutal misnomer.
Too often, schools operate according to a perverse incentive structure.
For instance, the more disruptive a student is, the more resources and attention they get.
Meanwhile, the well-behaved, high-performing kids are largely ignored while chaos reigns.
Unfortunately, chaos, when not dealt with, is infectious. It grows when ignored.