From the NY Times:
Shortly after school began in September, the teacher told his sixth-period students at Kearny High School that evolution and the Big Bang were not scientific, that dinosaurs were aboard Noah’s ark, and that only Christians had a place in heaven, according to audio recordings made by a student whose family is now […]
At Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin makes the argument that Texas’ 10% plan, which gives any high school student finishing in the top 10% of his/her class automatic acceptance to the state university of choice, is worse than traditional affirmative action.
From this New York Times article, Somin makes three fundamental points.
First — that “it often leads […]
I think 95% of precincts reported means I can safely call this one:
Looks like Katy gets its school bond
I’ll write more on this tomorrow… when I’ve slept off all this coffee.
Polimom voted early yesterday, and although I wrote that there are no “yes” votes these days, I actually cast two. One of those will hopefully send someone to Washington D.C. (for another post…), but the other was as local as it gets: the Katy ISD school bond.
This local bond was the one issue on my […]
When Polimom smarted off as a kid, or thought I should have something because my friend Janey (or Johnny) had it, my father would threaten to send me to stay with my cousins.
I didn’t know these cousins, but I’d heard lots about them: they didn’t drive cars, or use electricity. They didn’t watch television, wore […]