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Educators, kindergarten through college, are in a unique position of enormous power responsibility. Because they are "teachers", it's assumed they are knowledgeable of the topics of which they speak and issue factually correct information of that which they speak because they grade students on the information taught thus are in the position of being able to alter the forward trajectory of any student's academic record. One would think a competent educator would present all sides of an issue and allow the critical thinking process to develop in the young minds of their students. However, that is NOT what occurs in...

There was an old English saying, "A mayde schuld be seen, but not herd" which has since morphed into 'Children should be seen and not heard'. The latter was the world I grew up in, and as one finds as one grows up, there is wisdom in old sayings. I remember being with my father and his friends as a child, and that saying was the rule, because of course, I had very little to offer an adult conversation. That was then. I also remember the Bill Clinton/Whitney Houston 80s and 90s. Bill Clinton for coining the phrase "for the...