I see Harvard is refusing to return the stimulus money they got.
I’m old enough to remember when Harvard had successfully concealed the fact that they were a joke.
Higher education is utterly filled with ;educated’ dumbarses, be assured.
“I think it’s always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to give the powerful ones total authority.”
And so... we should turn them over to government agents working for the public schools... to prevent dangerous powerful people from being in charge of them?
Got it... lol
It’s Harvard Law, they can’t even hold their own to a bunch of Convicts in Prison!!
She is speaking about HERSELF, isn't she?
Christ is Risen!!!!
It seems that Professor Bartholet has an extensive background as a left-wing activist:
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet
That’s not the best background for judging alternative modes of education!!!!
In the Orthodox Christian community, the real issue is the dearth of Orthodox day schools. There are a few good ones, which not only give children an excellent classical education, but allow them to attend weekday Liturgies.
At least after the “COVID-19 era” is over (by the help of God) more large parishes need to prayerfully consider whether then are called to start Orthodox day schools.
We need more Orthodox universities in the USA as well. (There are only two right now.) It would take a long time before an Orthodox Harvard might arise on this continent, but who knows whether even that is possible!!!!
Indeed He is Risen!!!!
Good supplemental reading!! He gives some of his reasons the good doctor is against homeschooling.
(Snip)Homeschool is just better for some kids.
There are children who do not thrive in the public school system. I had one of those kids myself.
Before I continue, I should note that I’m not one of those all-or-nothing parents who believe children should only be home-educated or should only be publicly educated. In fact, I have one kid who is the product of the public school system and one who is the product of homeschooling. Both of my daughters have grown up to be intelligent, thoughtful, sociable, and kind individuals who can think for themselves.
When I removed my youngest daughter from the public school system, the main reason was because critical thinking was discouraged. “If your daughter didn’t have to question everything, her grades would be higher,” the principal informed me at the very last school meeting I’d ever attend. “She always has to ask questions. She refuses to simply absorb the information.”
How could a school system like that properly educate my curious and intelligent child, who had been asking me “why” from the moment she could talk? Quite simply they wouldn’t. They’d try to shove her square little brain into their round hole until she became just like everyone else - an automaton who believed that guns are scary and the government and all its agencies are always right. (Unless it’s President Trump, because he’s always bad.)(end snip)
Hey! I’ve got an idea! Why not confiscate them as soon as they’re born? Their training could be supervised through adulthood!
By meaningful education, I assume she means churning out more brainless leftists, like the colleges?
Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
80% of NY City HS grads can’t read at grade level
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/03/80_of_ny_city_hs_grads_cant_read_at_grade_level.html
The Left never stops, and this is them opening up another front in the ongoing cultural war against Christians and traditional Americans. The first step is to challenge a previously unexceptional part of American life and culture as “extreme,” “racist,” or “out of the mainstream.” (The mainstream, of course, is always defined by the Left.) Once the challenge has been laid down, another normal part of America is suddenly “controversial.” The next step is to define those who support the suddenly “controversial” practice as evil - they themselves must be extreme, racist, and out of the mainstream. But very few are willing to bear the stigma of being defined that way, and thus another piece of America is wiped out by the Left.
Mr. Farris deserves a lot of credit for founding the Home School Legal Defense Association. They do more than just play defense on the leftists’ latest chosen battlefield, but also try to advance the liberty of home schoolers.
This professor is an idiot. So much for Harvard.
Curious coinkydink…...I am currently reading a fantasy series by Mercedes Lackey and 2 other lesser known authors. The series is set in the 1500’s in an alternate Europe where magic is used within the church and by evil people. One of the villains of the series is a woman named Elizabeth Bartholdy, a Hungarian countess who sold herself to the devil in exchange for eternal youth, beauty and power. Wonder if it’s the same person...….