Too Funny
Beverly Mickens, comedianne, said: Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.

Testing: the Lifeblood of Learning
It seems to me something very basic is wrong about testing students. The meaning of testing is to try something to see if it's good, interesting, worthy, or true. Is that what schools do with students?I think the best purpose of testing is for learning. A person tests what is being learned about and judges what is interesting to them about it and then tests it still further to see what else there is that's interesting about it. Therefore any test in the hands of the person learning benefits them, even if the thing turns out *not* to be interesting.In my opinion, to the degree that the test is the property and instrument of the learner, it can facilitate learning. Tes

What Jon Kream said on FB
And I quote:"Children are not just awesomely cool. They are YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. They didn't ask to be here, you dragged them into this world. They naturally know what they like/don't like, when they are hungry/not, what they want/don't want and what their bodies need. 'Eat it or fix something ... is shirking your responsibility once YOUR needs are met . We prepare and share meals with each other out of love for our families, not to meet some minimum traditional standard of care set by society, ("I made dinner its not my fault she wont eat it") It is your fault - If you cant want to prepare food they want, in order to meet their needs becau