Posted in Culture, Education on July 7, 2008 | 17 Comments »
As students and their families spend the summer trying to figure out how to cope with college costs in the fall, most will accept the ridiculously high prices as normal. Few will ask the prior question such expenditures ought to raise: Why is the price of education so outrageous?
The truth is education costs continue to skyrocket for many [...]
Posted in Education on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tony Jones, in his fervor to see the death of the home schooling movement, threatens the very communities he claims to champion.
Jones seems never to have thought the biggest threat to community, the most serious challenge to stable, traditional ways of living in America, is the secular consumerist worldview and the government that uses the [...]
Posted in Education on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Tony Jones thinks Christian parents have a duty to surrender their children to the state run educational establishment in the interest of community and safeguarding the societal contract.
But, Jones’ argument undercuts the foundation of all stable communities by harming families, the little communities on which all larger communities are built. In this case, Jones is [...]
Posted in Education on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Tony Jones is convinced Christians can only serve the communities around them by sending their children to public schools. To do otherwise is to abandon the social contract with our neighbors and to fail to live as God desires, he says.
Jones ignores a lot. For example, he avoids the question of what kind of education [...]
Posted in Education on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
“Few profound conflicts can’t be resolved with sufficiently superficial thinking” seems to be the motto of much of the left, including the left wing of the emerging church movement.
Emergent leader Tony Jones applies this motto to the issue of whether Christians should send their children to public schools in a post called “Death to Homeschooling!” [...]
Posted in Education on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Education on July 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I continue to receive comments arguing that public schools cannot be held more accountable for the bad behavior of children than can parents. I thought it might be helpful if I made another attempt to clarify my position on this.
While I certainly think parents are a major factor in shaping and molding their children, I [...]
Posted in Education on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Before the week ends, I wanted to say one more word about American public education, especially about its methods for identifying emotionally troubled kids whose behavior sometimes disrupts the schooling process.
I have worked with these kids. I’ve witnessed or heard first hand reports of kids going berserk in classrooms, wailing, shoving furniture, throwing things. I’ve [...]
Posted in Education on July 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
In response to my previous post, some friends have posted objections and questions that deserve responses. Let me try to offer the beginning of answers to their concerns.
Aaron reacted to my description of the barbarous behavior of public school children by writing:
Some public schools I am in actually have well behaved children and on overall [...]
Posted in Education on July 25, 2007 | 11 Comments »
While in Oregon a few weeks ago, the Mrs. and I visited the zoo in Portland.
We happened to show up on what was, to judge by appearances, public elementary school day. The paths were choked with squirming, whining, intractable kids. They screamed non-stop. Everywhere we went they were there, banging on windows, pushing each other, [...]
