Recent content by Kevin Lang

I wish we lived in a time when an Ivy League degree meant that its "bearer" had received the most rigorous education in the land. Now it just signifies that the bearer paid a lot of money to get an indoctrination. I'm not sure that I'd want a surgeon who isn't fluent either in his...

Seems as though that describes a great many exchange students here in the US. It certainly fits the ones whom I encountered. Yet the rest of the world seems to think that Americans are boorish, uncivilized cavemen :rofl: My favorite tale of those who learned English as a second language...

They might have had first, ah, hand knowledge of it. Being as they were likely at boarding school and all...

Wow. I hadn't heard of this but their site says that MD-of all places (I guess we do have lax liquor laws)-is going to sell it. No stores yet, but now I'm interested.

When I learned that the schools of yesteryear taught young kids like advanced mathematics, the "classics" of literature, greek, latin, French I compared that to the sad excuse for an education that I was getting and wondered where we went wrong. ~100 years ago the raging, ironic Progressive...

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Though I'm all for people focusing on their aptitudes/interests, we definitely need a some basics that everyone has, though a standardized test is not the way to ensure that everyone can read, write, and calculate to at least a certain proficiency. That's where teachers who actually care and...

Yes. Since the governors of the states through which it'd travel seem to be on-board, and the Canadians are on board, why don't we just build the pipeline across the border and see if, like any other illegal "immigrant", the feds ever notice it. From the articles I've seen, the ICE...

"Soft skills" are not what the education system is for: we're supposed to be learning facts and hone our ability to think freely, not being "taught" merely what to think and how to act. Back when school was about learning to to think, not learning what to think, we were #1. Curse John Dewey...

Bill V, that has to be a joke, right? I mean, no rational person would genuinely argue that one "law" is true simply because we generally accept another "law" to be true and that if one "law" is good than any other "law" must be as well. By your argument, it doesn't matter that you can't...

Standardized tests are a right-oriented position? When did that happen (and why are the biggest standardized tests run by the left-leaning College Board)? Only the left-leaning schools worship the test scores, focusing only on "teaching to the test" in their efforts to avail themselves of...

So attractive men drive black Ford pickups, but driving a pickup isn't what makes them attractive?

Here in MD, the rivers and Bay have been freezing. My county has had to actually get its icebreaking ship out of mothballs and use it to crunch through as many as 5 inches of ice. We haven't seen that much ice in 10 years. I'm sure that all y'all who live in areas where ice fishing and...

If there's a state that should know that the Federal government will always give it the short end of the stick it is Utah. I'm not sure how this can happen as the people of Utah elected at least one Senator to represent them who opposes this. When a majority of the state puts a guy in office...

I hope that bird can fly, because that guy seemed liable to climb up there after him. BTW, I noticed that the car barely "bounced" when he sat down in the drivers seat.