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Showing posts with label schooling. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

American Simple Truths

 Home schooling should dominate American education because the main teachers in a child's life are the parents. School systems are more or less a curse. Big government is actually okay as long as it is local government...what my neighbors and I can do will make sense as we know the actual needs. The federal government should be as small as necessary given what the state governments would have difficulty doing ---such as a national military. "Family" should be the center of most legislation. 

And it is best if all elected offices were one term. It comes at a cost: the few good people go home after 4 years. But it comes as a great improvement: Majority and Minority Leaders lose their power...lobbyists lose their power...and the wealthy lose their power. 

What needs to end is this pervsive belief that there are no authorities only opinions. What needs to end is the murdering of the past by the present. What needs to end is the dominance of "experience" over relationship. "You gave me a bad time? It's over!" We mature through commitments and not through the childish running away because some times it is difficult. Marriage is a matter of vows not a superficial contract that can be broken. It is covenant and gives you an identity...for better or worse.



PopPop_MomMom

We met on the street corner...West Avenue in Jenkintown, Pa. (1981). I was looking for a place to stay closer to Elkins Park where I would start my first teaching position. She was the crossing guiard and I the big kid wanting her to cross me. I said something silly and she gave me a big smile. I was slain. 44 years later we help each other every day and we have nine grandchildren. The only good thing about being old is those nine grandchildren. 

My son, Michael, and my grandson Hunter

 

American Simple Truths

 Home schooling should dominate American education because the main teachers in a child's life are the parents. School systems are more ...