This was meant to have gone live last Sunday, when the power line and Internet cable literally went down, on the ground, under a large section of tree.
Cartoons
Truly timeless classic. Gary Larson would no doubt have appreciated the irony that clunky flat phones came back, a little smaller, but just as hard to fit into any kind of pocket, bag, backpack, or briefcase.
Comedy
No politics here. Well, none to speak of...the way my Friday morning Substack does reflect political views such as "Everyone has the right to read and write light verse," but it's not more partisan than that, trust me, it's 100% Trump-free... Just pre-holiday laughs.
Homeschooling
The son of an eccentric homeschooler has written a memoir suggesting that all homeschooling should be supervised by the federal government. As if, in the extremely rare cases where homeschoolers are abusive parents, a visiting bureaucrat would help.
Actually, most State governments already do supervise homeschooling, in a benign way, by offering curricula to ensure children pass the same tests everyone else does and in some cases supervising homeschooled children's exams. Children are at far more risk in tax-funded schools. Using Bitter Boy's arguments for more "supervision" of homeschoolers, we'd need to investigate every public school on a weekly basis to ensure that the quality of public education is brought up to within screaming distance of the quality of homeschooling...
* children maintain a good healthy distance from one another at all times--desks six feet apart, lines along a rope knotted at six-foot intervals to ensure that children aren't breathing germs on each other
* children bring their own meals and don't share, or else school meals are prepared with due consideration for each child's dietary requirements
* all religious and political views are represented in textbooks and classroom discussions, and all textbook materials are approved by every parent for use in every class, as being age-appropriate as well as being factually accurate and having some merit for private reading
* children learn to spot religious, political, or philosophical bigotry just as they learn to spot demographic prejudices, and call them out, so that smears on, e.g., Republicans, are met with shrieks of "Bigot! I don't want to see or hear this!" from six-year-olds
* the school is fully liable for any side effects of any recommended vaccines or medications
* any child who shows symptoms of any communicable disease is immediately taken home
* children spend at least ten times as much time interacting with adults as they do with other children, which has long been known to be the secret to language skills development (children with a sibling, or siblings, less than ten years older than they are are at a measurable disadvantage)
* all social interactions among children are mutual--children are carefully monitored to prevent any persistent chatter, or other bids from attention from a child who does not clearly show interest in conversation
* children with extrovert tendencies are monitored to ensure they learn to wait patiently for permission to make noise or call attention to themselves; after one reminder to be quiet, they're promptly escorted to isolation carrels so that they don't violate others' space
* no adult school employee is EVER alone with a child for ANY reason (yes, this means schools are not allowed to engage in "counselling" beyond full-classroom consultations about class schedules), because being alone with an adult who is not part of your family is just too icky when you're a child
* and children have the option of getting all their book work done quickly and going home, so that they are not forced to waste time feeling that their time and attention are valueless, which has an incredibly detrimental effect on their social and emotional development, as is shown by the social behavior of so many public school graduates!
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