Just saw someone complaining about the practice of escalating punishments for an accumulation of “minor” behavior issues. These people must think that, in these situations, there haven’t been multiple attempts at fixing the behavior, but that’s never the case. I don’t know a

Modern education wants to replace teachers with AI because it thinks education is just data transfer. Classical education seeks souls on fire—men and women who ignite wonder, wisdom, and virtue. One system fills heads. The other sets hearts ablaze. Where do you want to teach?

Teachers don’t burn out from working hard. They burn out from working hard while being undermined at every turn.

I am an advocate for parent’s rights in education. As a parent myself, that will always be the case. Parents have every right to advocate. But… Advocacy without involvement is misguided and leads to entitlement. If you haven’t checked a backpack, opened the gradebook, or

James A. Furey I believe in advocacy too, but there's a certain point where you have to let the teachers do their jobs. I'm not sure where that line is. I was an extremely involved parent at my kids' elementary school, which welcomed parent involvement. When my son was in 2nd grade, I was part

The problem, of course, is that ANY misbehavior will be interpreted as a manifestation of disability precisely in order that it can be ignored.

Considering dyslexia is defined as difficulty in reading accuracy, fluency, and/or comprehension despite adequate instruction and support, and that reading instruction today often fails to meet that bar, it’s reasonable to assume many diagnoses stem not from disability, but from

Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore: city-journal.org/article/educat…

Obviously, everyone has political preferences and they’re within their rights to hold them. But when the presidents of both Teachers Unions are members of the DNC and spend money on initiatives and use their influence to align specifically with the most radical elements of the

Know what else is not awesome? This (common) scenario: 1. Kid falls behind in reading at school. 2. Kid diagnosed with reading disability. 3. Kid brought to reading tutor to shore up reading weaknesses. 4. Tutor gives explicit phonics instruction. 5. Kid reads just fine.

The future must be human.

Where my conservative teachers at? Your secret is safe with me!

This is the third account today to reveal to me they’re in Wisconsin? Who else? Should we have a meeting or something?