Pecking Order Common Core: A Principal’s response
As a follow up to my previous article, I asked the Principal at an Idaho school some rather pointed questions about Common Core and how it relates to my instruction for my child in particular. I have placed some of those questions and answers here for your review.
Pecking Order Common Core: What does it mean for parents?
So far, the teachers I’ve talked to express more resignation regarding the common core standards than anything else. In the case of my oldest daughter’s school, the teachers of AP…
Pecking Order Our Historic President
You know, when people across the country touted Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency as “Historic” I bet they never dreamed that this President would actually slap one third of the entire population right across the face and kill their medical coverage in one fell swoop…
Pecking Order Obamacare: Faceplant on entry
You were warned of the impending failures inherent in the deployment of Obamacare: Warnings came from all directions, detailing missed deadlines and the lack of transparency preventing anyone from finding…
Pecking Order Obamacare circling the drain
A while back (Mid 2012) I made several observations about the impending Obamacare and how it would negatively affect businesses as a whole and people individually. Let’s take a look…
Pecking Order Idaho’s Insurance exchange: Giving the Feds a stick to beat us with?
Idaho has taken the first steps towards creating a health insurance exchange for the state, but many do not agree with this decision. Let’s take a look at how this…
Pecking Order A comedy of errors: This week’s Obama gun control & child safety speech by the numbers
In his speech, Obama mentioned a number of goals and his office released the following list outlining those goals in more detail. So here’s the list and my take on…
Pecking Order The second 2012 Presidential debate: Eyeballing it from the cheap seats.
Do we truly need any further examples of media bias? Is there anyone out there who has not realized that journalists standards are sure and truly dead in the majority…
Pecking Order President Obama’s double-eagle salute.
President Obama just flipped you the bird, now what? Today the Supreme Court ruled on the Arizona immigration bill. (found here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf) No surprises there: Some portions of the bill…
Pecking Order The digital divide: The cause of poverty in America, or just the latest tscam on the poor?
Most of us have heard this claim: There exists a “digital divide” between the poor and the rich. Those who don’t have internet are getting farther behind those (the rich…
Pecking Order Idaho’s backroom politics: Business as usual?
Last week, a bill requiring a sonogram for every abortion caused quite a stir. It brought activists from both sides of this topic out of the woodwork and into the…
Pecking Order Cuban Healthcare: A glimpse into our future?
What to do with Healthcare: Is our system of healthcare truly as broken as we are told, or is that only one side of the story? Some would argue that…
Other sections
- The Dog House Stories about folks being their own worst enemy
- Feed Store Tipping, money and what things are really worth
- Fence Line Veterans, country and where we draw the line
- Front Porch Faith, family, gratitude and the quiet stuff worth sitting with
- Out to Pasture Retired tech and old reflections, still worth a read
