Tag Archives: public schools

More thoughts on “the pizza caper”

Posted on February 12, 2026 by TPOL Nathan

Yesterday, we published a long, perhaps apocryphal story about a 2nd grader who was punished for being kind to a classmate. For trying to share his lunch with the classmate who was served the “cheese sandwich of shame” because his … Continue reading →

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One of the evils of public schools and our system is …

Posted on February 11, 2026 by TPOL Nathan

Readers, this story is longer than most commentaries; we hope you will still read the whole thing. We do not know if the following story is true. But some of us here at TPOL have personally seen incidents like this … Continue reading →

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Home schooling – enemy of government?

Posted on December 5, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Fifty-sixty years ago, no one had ever heard of home schooling here in the States. It wasn’t necessarily nonexistent, but incredibly rare. You might find the occasional rancher or forest ranger or other remote family teaching their own children, but … Continue reading →

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Government-run, tax-funded schools

Posted on May 20, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

We here at TPOL have recently been taken to task by several people because we oppose public (government-run, tax-supported) schools and try to point out the dangers of entrusting children to those institutions. A recent news story explains part of … Continue reading →

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The insanity of modern “public schools” and their students

Posted on December 17, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

TRIGGER WARNING! Do not scroll down and see the picture unless you are ready and able to be emotionally triggered. Robert Heinlein’s stories including a “future history” often referred to “The Crazy Years” when societies around the world became totally … Continue reading →

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Government funding of private schools?

Posted on September 14, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Jonah Goldberg once wrote, Government money only pays for the “liberties” the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state. To put … Continue reading →

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“Uniform educational standards” government-controlled homeschooling

Posted on June 30, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Have you heard about a recent article over at Scientific American? Children Deserve Uniform Standards in Homeschooling is the title. The push in the article is a list of claims about how bad homeschooling is. We are told (with little … Continue reading →

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A misunderstanding regarding education and parents

Posted on March 2, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Parents are rightly concerned about what school teachers are telling their children. But often the concerned and active parents misunderstand the real problem, and all the problems. We often do not recognize the extent of the evil found in public … Continue reading →

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Who will watch the watchers?

Posted on December 14, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

The campus security force is a common feature at more and more public (government-run, tax-funded) schools. And for that matter, at more and more businesses. Internal threats to peace and external dangers from growing numbers of people who see an … Continue reading →

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School avoidance and anxiety “disorder”

Posted on July 26, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Fewer and fewer students (grades PS though grad school) seem to be allowed a break from being confined to government-run tax-funded schools or their private equivalents. (That is, the bootlicking privately-funded schools that are still in essence controlled by government … Continue reading →

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