Jan 27, 2022 · I want to say a good word or three about those who practice a profession I took a swing at not long after my journalism career came to an end. That would be teachers. They are heroes in …

Feb 28, 2024 · Jesus Christ would be appalled at what passes these days for teaching in his name. There. I said out loud what has been gnawing at me for decades. OK, I have to acknowledge that as …

Jul 18, 2022 · There is nothing sensible about arming teachers, some of whom might be in their first teaching job and asking them to do something that trained police officers — in the Uvalde case — …

Mar 15, 2024 · Of all the histrionics I have heard about why the MAGA crowd is so in love with the former POTUS who wants to return to office, only one proclamation actually offends me. It goes like …

Apr 7, 2025 · The Texas public education system is about to feel the budget axe as the Legislature prepares to approve a school voucher plan and send it to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk for his signature. …

Jul 5, 2022 · My previous blog spoke well of the Texas State Board of Education’s decision to keep teaching elementary public school students about “slavery” and to forgo the use of a term called …

Feb 20, 2022 · Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, no shrinking violet to be sure, has decided the latest “enemy” of the public are the educators who lecture our students attending public universities. Patric…

Nov 1, 2025 · For a good while I have been yammering about the need for the major political parties to rally around an unknown politician, someone who emerges suddenly with a fresh voice, spoken from …

Aug 17, 2022 · Qualified educators are quitting the teaching profession they formerly loved because parents have grown angry over mask mandates to fend off the infectious pandemic that has killed …

May 28, 2025 · Our nation’s founders were by and large brilliant men who gathered to craft a government from scratch at the end of our revolution. They didn’t craft a perfect document, as it …