Intersanity Foundation Announces ‘Public Schools Watch’

Posted March 6, 2007, 1:14 p.m.

The Intersanity Foundation is proud to announce the launch of a new project, Public Schools Watch, located at http://www.pswatch.org. Public Schools Watch is a user-driven forum web site where parents and students can catalog and discuss the problems and abuses of public schools on a national and local level, beginning with my favorite school system in the world: Fairfax County Public Schools (see Not Affiliated With Chantilly High School).

Public Schools Watch has local school district forums which are moderated by volunteers from that local area. At launch time, only Fairfax County, Virginia has a local forum, however we are hoping to expand to other school systems nationwide over time. Volunteers interested in starting and moderating a local forum for their school district can contact the Intersanity Foundation to get started.

In addition, there are several ‘general discussion’ forums where anybody can discuss the nationwide problems with public education in the United States, and (hopefully) posit ideas on how to fix it.

Public Schools Watch is funded entirely through the Intersanity Foundation, and if you wish to support the project you can (first and foremost) participate in the discussion or donate to the Foundation to cover operations costs.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

It was Communism that was evil, and the more truly a man acted in its spirit and interest, the more certainly he perpetuated evil.

Science consists largely in telling people things which they already know, in a language which they cannot understand.

Nothing which makes us happy is an illusion.

Thus many were shot—thousands at first, then hundreds of thousands. We divide, we multiply, we sigh, we curse. But still and all, these are just numbers. They overwhelm the mind and then are easily forgotten.

I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

Every day one comes across somebody who says that of course his view may not be the right one. Of course his view must be the right one, or it is not his view. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

As the sun shines on mud and hardens it, and shines on wax and softens it, so too this great miracle of Our Blessed Lord hardened some unto unbelief, and softened others unto belief.

We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on.

You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing in the entire universe, and on the other, someone who can’t even set the clock on your microwave.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

I thought [being president] would be easier.

Scripture alone is insufficient. Authoritative teaching is also needed.

[A boundary is] an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Millennia passed before humankind discovered that energy is the basis of matter. It may take a few more years before we prove that wisdom and knowledge are the basis of, and can actually create, energy which in turn creates matter.

I hate it when reality steals my plots.

Property rights create self-monitoring, which tends to be both more effective and less costly than third-party monitoring.

Just exactly what happened in the twentieth century, anyway? How was it that so many tens of millions had to die, sacrificed to the new dogmas and ideologies? How was it that we discovered something worse, much worse, than the aristocracy and corrupt religious beliefs that communism and fascism sought so rationally to supplant?