Entries by Larry Sand

DEI Resistance Is Advancing

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Editors’ Note: As we move into 2024, let us call out DEI for what it really is. The Marxist agenda being pushed by the radical left (i.e., today’s Democrat party) with their long standing goal of taking over American institutions and forcing everyone into tribal collectivism, is branded by the meaningless and shallow words Diversity, […]

Pushback In The Culture Wars

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

“The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than […]

California, Arizona Offer Startling Contrast in Educational Scenarios

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

What a difference a state makes. My nephew Steve recently informed me that he and his wife Andrea – lifelong New Yorkers – want to move west. Highest on their list of priorities for a future home is fulfilling the educational needs of their kids, 5-year-old Danny and 4-year-old Molly. Having lived in the Golden […]

It’s Time To Abolish The Teachers Unions

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

A disaster for students and good teachers alike. “All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.” The above caveat about government unions – usually known by the kinder and […]

The Year of The Parent

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Battle lines have been drawn, the war is on, and the great parent awakening of 2021 will have permanent consequences. Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, my parents could send me off to school and assume I would be taught by people who shared their values. Those days are long gone, however. To be […]

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