Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

I guess I need to start shopping at Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy. BTW, do such boycotts ever really work?

I thought it was only Republicans who were supposed to be racist. I love the old yarn about how the Democrats were the party of Civil Right...

This seems a bit extreme, but whatever. I'm sure he'd be happy to have as commencement speaker that paragon of virtue, Bill Clinton...

Whose behavior is worse in this incident , the picketers--who tried and successfully screwed up a university graduation--or the pandering po...

I have nothing to add to this post .

Months ago I proposed a social gathering of California education bloggers. I even named this star-studded event. The problem is that I hav...

We've had some interesting, and conflicting, proposals in the legislature recently, proposals relating to textbooks. 1. Most recently...

Today I helped scoop ice cream at lunch--the Sacramento River Cats (and their mascot, Dinger !) provided the ice cream to our students who h...

Just read it .

The local Pacific Coast League Champions, the Sacramento River Cats , sure are good to my school. During the two weeks we spent doing standa...

Remember way back when, when the moonbats were howling "No blood for oil!"? The logic then was that we were invading Iraq in order...

From today's major Sacramento newspaper comes this quote from a senior who hasn't yet passed the exit exam: "I didn't have...

I've always felt that manipulatives can have a place in the math curriculum, but only if they directly, and I do mean directly , relate ...

EIA (see blogroll at left) has an interesting post (May 8th communique) that contains info about unions in the Golden and Empire States. Ca...

Via Going to the Mat I learn about a teacher in Kentucky that was recently fired for being in a porn movie--11 years ago. Wow. I don't ...

I'm amazed how a judge could rule that the exit exam is "illegal". Who determines what the requirements for graduation are? ...

Instapundit had an interesting quote in this post , and summed it all up with Education, as they say, is the only consumer product where the...

From today's major Sacramento newspaper : Benjamin Underwood tilts his head, and the sun lights up his deeply set eyes. They are the col...

More from Britain --this time about dentists.

The local coin club, of which I am nominally still a member, held it's annual coin show today. Sometimes they hold two a year, sometime...