by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
How many more interviews was I going to put myself through before I realized how inane, insane, and in vain the whole enterprise of public education would be?I went to a make-shift charter school in Inglewood (two, actually).Two other teachers and I had come together...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Adolescents struggle with an ever-expanding mind, which can easily lead them astray to the extent that they believe everything that they think.Hence, the important of education lies in guiding students to rely on and seek on verities more profound, more reliable than...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Why do charter schools exist?Why would a school district issue a charter to an outside corporation, since a more successful model, a public-private initiative, if you will, would make fully known what is passing knowledge to a weary and disillusioned public:Public...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
William Lloyd Garrison was a fiery abolitionist, one whose rhetoric stirred a nation to combat the evils of slavery.Yet his elitist, reformist moralizing bordered on the tyrannical, undermining the cause he championed because he championed a cause, not people, not...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
To be better today than you were yesterday.To have an understanding of what was lacking in your life before.To choose the better for yourself today.To believe that tomorrow holds on more and better.That is true nobility.It has nothing to do with titles.It has nothing...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Minorities who rely on the state (and even majority members of a community, though such an abstraction no longer exists in the exquisitely diverse state of California)have become a class of entitled nobility, except the standard is not one of excellence, but...