Zero-Tolerance in Denver
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An 11-year old boy was hauled off to jail, after following his therapists instructions — even though school officials agreed he wasn’t a threat. I’m strongly considering homeschooling because of stories like this.
Yet Another Reason for a Sick Day
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Did you know that Milwaukee Area Technical College will pay the deductible if a teacher’s car is vandalized in a MATC parking area? True fact. Mike Nichols reviews what else is in the new MATC collective bargaining agreement.
Of Course It’s about the Money
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Christian Schneider provides a run-down of the way that the teachers’ union goes after the money, in ways large and small. Remember, unions always help their members by limiting competition for jobs and by fighting anything that might hurt the worst teachers.
More on Schools and Socialization
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More on schools and socialization from David Henderson. This time he relates some nasty bullying that he was subjected to and the bullying values that he learned from his teachers. Institutional schools (whether public or private) aren’t always a good place for children and teens to be.
Home Schooling and Socialization
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David Henderson writes, briefly, at EconLog about the benefits of abolishing the government’s role in education. Spoiler: Children would probably learn a lot more and be better socialized.
Unions and the “Rights of the Workers”
I took a lot of heat after my last post, Are Teacher’s Overpaid?. That’s okay. I’m used to it. Let me quickly reiterate my main point from that post: I have no idea idea whether or not teachers are overpaid. Without a functioning marketplace for teachers and employers, it’s impossible to know if teachers are …
Are Teachers Overpaid?
Teachers today could be vastly overpaid and in need of severe pay cuts. Or teachers today could be vastly underpaid and in need of massive raises. Until there’s true competition in the labor market, we’ll never know which is true.
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch.1, p.35-39)
And now to the meat.
With Chapters 1 and 2, Messrs. Geisler & Turek seek to prove, as you might expect, the first two points of their case for the Bible. These points are:
Truth about reality is knowable. .2 The opposite of true is false.
I’d divide their first …
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (p.17-19)
The 12-point argument for the Bible’s divinely-inspired authority doesn’t actually start until Chapter 1, but Mssrs. Geisler and Turek make a couple of assertions in their book’s introduction (”Finding the Box Top to the Puzzle of Life”) that require addressing – and more importantly, also begin to reveal a tendency they have to manipulate their …
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (p.1!)
NOTES ON THE INTRODUCTION
That Geisler and Turek have written a book about how much more intellectual sense it makes to be a Christian is, to my mind, interesting in itself for what it says about the modern Christian.
The title isn’t simply a catty remark about how ridiculously unsupportable Geisler & Turek believe atheists’ world view …