Not in Hawai’i, it seems.
My grandchildren and their friends in the neighborhood and at church love playing school. And they do learn and teach each other a lot. Especially with a nearby parent or grandparent to push in just the right way. Fortunately, we are in the Black Hills. Not in the Fiftieth State.
The Foundation for Economic Education recently published the sad tale of rural families in Hawai’i – on the Big Island itself – who tried to help their children survive and thrive in the triple-threat environment. Triple? At least: the Beer Flu lockdown, the rapid deterioration of American public (government-run theft-funded) schools, and the Woke initiative.
The State took them off to court and tried to levy $55,000 in fines for “operating an unlicensed preschool” since some of their children were under age 5 or 6. And because they were working together (several families) and even got paid (which they paid for) from professional educators. And were incorporated and all sorts of other things that made them more visible to the government thugs.
It seems that in education matters in the 50th State, no good deed goes unpunished. After all, it’s “fah the childrun, don’t yah know.” You wonder if the “men in black” would show up if somebody ratted out a group of kids playing school out on the front porch?
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Moldava bans political party “Sor”
From Eastern Europe comes this tidbit of news, via RT. (Yes, we here at TPOL know that RT, like RFE and PBS, is a state-owned/controlled media outlet. The news is similar in most outlets, however.-)
It seems that the little nation’s supreme court has outlawed an opposition political party, by the name of Sor. (The party name means Upward in Moldavan, a dialect of Romanian.)
Why?
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