education policy

Progress in a small town

Submitted by Robyn on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 2:46pm

Candia, New Hampshire includes the villages of Candia, Candia Four Corners and East Candia. Total population is less than 4,000.

Thursday night, the School Board hosted a hearing to gather public input on its transgender policy. The hearing was forced by a warrant article approved 518-335 at this year's town meeting.

Richard Rorty 1999 prediction of Trump

Submitted by Linda Wood on Tue, 11/15/2016 - 4:58pm

A friend linked me to a Richard Rorty article, and I found this quotation from 1999 amazingly predictive of what we are now discussing about Trump and the Democratic party elite. The bolded type is my own emphasis:

http://franklycurious.com/wp/2016/11/14/richard-rorty-1999/

Richard Rorty Predicts 2016 President in 1999

Vituperation in Edmonton

Submitted by Robyn on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 2:09pm

The Edmonton Catholic School District has been trying to come up with a policy about transgender students, as required by the Alberta Ministry of Education.

The result, as you might imagine, has been a lot of screaming and shouting.

Lead transphobe has been Trustee Larry Kowalczyk. Back in September his statement about the possibility of a policy was:

I see that as a mental disorder, my faith sees it as a mental disorder.

My stand is with that of the church. God has not made a mistake in the gender of me, or you, or anyone else.

--Kowalczyk

In the earlier interview, he compared transgender people to those suffering from schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder.