I’m definitely not the most patriotic person in this country. It’s not a matter of disliking it as much as it is disliking the lies the country is built upon and what it has become since Reagan. The idealized “American Dream” is only truly attainable by folks born on third base. The rest of us have been brainwashed into thinking we can get there, but in reality, we can’t.

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. In June, you turned out in record numbers for the first Syracuse area No Kings event. L...

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Two More Things about Teaching   There are two more things that I think need said about teaching as we arrive at the middle of the 2020s. The first centers around the subject I teach, English,…

Two More Things about Teaching There are two more things that I think need said about teaching as we arrive at the middle of the 2020s. The first centers around the subject I teach, English, but more specifically reading skills. The second is student achievement, not just in English, but in academics in general. These come from observations, both from myself and others who teach and others who teach English.

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Recently the read comments on a post about the cuts to education that will and have occurred since the beginning of this new administration. The number of people who have no problem with cutting out food programs and mental health services in our schools is appalling. These same individuals who also see no problem with cutting other services to our schools, including having teacher assistants who help with the most challenging students, the students who range from having simple learning disabilities to ones who have serious ones.

Emboldened conservative state legislators in the Deep South force academic leadership to curtail inclusive curricula and classroom discussion.

“ was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that “of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and yet his more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches., nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill…He would whirl arms, bang tables, glare from mad eyes, vomit Biblical wrath from a gaping mouth: but he would also coo like a nursing mother, beseech like an “aching lover, and in between tricks would coldly and almost contemptuously jab his crowds with figures and facts—figures and facts that were inescapable even when, as often happened, they were entirely incorrect.”—