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China's national flag to go up in White House on Sept 20

From China Daily : The national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday. Chinese associations in the United States had applied to hold a ceremony in front of the US President’s residence...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 09-05-2009
Socialist America sinking

From Patrick J. Buchanan over at WND : After half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America, journalist Garet Garrett published "The People's Pottage." A year later, in 1954, he died. "The People's Pottage" opens thus: "There are those who still think...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-18-2009
Profound shift in kind of families who are home schooling their children

USA Today has an interesting article about the shift in homeschooling families. Parents who home-school children increasingly are white, wealthy and well-educated — and their numbers have nearly doubled in a decade, a new federal government report says. What else has nearly doubled? The percentage of...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 05-31-2009
Judge orders homeschoolers into public district classrooms: Decides children need more 'focus' despite testing above grade levels

This judge has no idea the fire storm he just lit off. From World Net Daily : A North Carolina judge has ordered three children to attend public schools this fall because the homeschooling their mother has provided over the last four years needs to be "challenged." The children, however, have...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 03-12-2009
re: Getting tough on truancy -- Part 1

The governments of Japan and the USA manifest their totalitarian tendencies in different ways. There are LOTS of truant students in Japan. (One of my neighbors just started homeschooling her second daughter, who recently informed her mother that she would rather be homeschooled than conventionally schooled...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by cdwitmer on 07-28-2007
Getting Tough on Truancy Part 2: Homeschooling

Now here comes the rub: homeschooling. This article scares me to death. The thought that kids can be

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2007
Getting Tough on Truancy Part 2: Homeschooling

Now here comes the rub: homeschooling. This article scares me to death. The thought that kids can be well educated outside of the state system galls the educrats. Here are parents who do not have education degrees; many who do not have college degrees; none who work for the unions. Yet in a good homeschool...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-28-2007
Getting tough on truancy -- Part 1

Follow the money. That will always give you the reason something’s going on. Recall that MSD is paid “by the head” — how many students are present per day. If there is a student who is truant, that amounts to lost revenue for the district. Best to put out a “bounty”...

Posted to Moscow Education (Idaho) (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-28-2007
Dear mom, stop telling me I'm smart. Love, Johnny

Below is an interesting article, and one that I’ve considered quite a lot. When it comes to individual sports (like swimming, cross-country, track, etc), it’s easy to tell if someone is good or not. When children are poor at cross-country, you can encourage them to work harder and to hang...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-19-2007
Oregon man flies 193 miles on a lawn chair and 105 balloons

Balloons suspend Kent Couch in a lawn chair as he floats in the skies near Bend, Ore., Saturday. Couch, on his way to Idaho, carried a global positioning system device, a two-way radio, a digital camcorder and a cell phone. From today's Associated Press : BEND, Ore. - Last weekend, Kent Couch settled...

Posted to Right Mind (Weblog) by Right-Mind on 07-10-2007

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