Wis. Student Sues to End Summer Homework

Posted January 21, 2005, 12:38 p.m.

I’m usually not a fan of frivolous lawsuits, but I have to sympathize with this student and his family (and agree with them in principle, if not in practice). The workload put on students in the public schools these days is unreasonable, and constantly getting worse.

And, as if it weren’t enough to have 4 hours of homework each night during the school year, there is a growing trend toward these kinds of summer assignments. ENOUGH ALREADY. Busywork, which is all most homework is now, is time consuming and contributes nothing to education. The way to improve things is to have significantly fewer, more-challenging assignments.

The viral spread of busywork drivel has done virtually nothing positive for education in America; adding more of it will not help.

Wis. Student Sues to End Summer Homework (AP via Yahoo! [no longer available]).

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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.

Failing to look under the bed when you strongly suspect a monster is lurking there is not an advisable strategy.

None of us are good at mind reading, and we know it, even if we don’t admit it.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

It is a fact, too—although a curious one—that the sale of small arms to gun enthusiasts or sportsmen produces a greater sense of moral outrage in western society than is produced by the sale to psychotic despots of weaponry capable of killing thousands.

Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over everything that stands in their way.

Throughout the history of anti-trust prosecutions, there has been an unresolved confusion between what is detrimental to competition and what is detrimental to competitors.

For when I look at these various anti-Christian truths, I simply discover that none of them are true. I discover that the true tide and force of all the facts flows the other way.

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you’re dealing with writers and artists. Sometimes the only real difference between crazy people and artists is that artists write down what they imagine seeing.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Trust between people who are not naive is a form of courage, because betrayal is always a possibility, and because this is consciously understood.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

One way to make enemies and antagonize people is to challenge the spirit of the world.

We tend to think that humans distinguish themselves from animals by greater knowledge and awareness, but the most typical difference is that, unlike animals, we are almost constantly tormented by a lack of knowledge.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Watering down or burying biblical truth on sexuality for the sake of keeping Millennials won’t work. Mainline Protestant churches have tried this strategy, and they remain in demographic collapse.

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