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"At Aspen," writes blogger Ellen Galinsky, "there was a consistent plea to prepare young people to thrive in a world where knowledge doubles every few years. But is the answer reform or transformation?"
"This reeks of Stalinist crap with a 'religious' twist," writes Post blogger Edward Troy, the Liberal Gladiator, in comment #4.
The Texas School Book Depository has seen fit to assasinate history as we know it and nearly 5 million kids are doomed to ignorance for at least another ten years. Talk about a natural disaster!
Continue Reading Add comment May 23rd, 2010
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Add comment September 21st, 2009
Part 4: Fomenting failure in our educational systems
By Frosty Wooldridge
In this final entry of this series on Anchor Babies in America, we shall investigate the unbelievable but verifiable costs to American citizens. Additionally, we will explore ancillary problems created by illegal alien children within our classrooms across the country.
Continue Reading 5 comments August 31st, 2009
Berkeley chef Alice Waters’ dream of creating edible schoolyards so students can learn to grow and eat fresh organic vegetables is becoming a reality in the Roaring Fork Valley. In Carbondale, the dream is being taken even further.
Roaring Fork High School is set to become the site of the first combined Edible Schoolyard/Farm School in Colorado, which may become the model for future such projects throughout the state.
Continue Reading Add comment August 11th, 2009
Your Reporter Jack Droy, Discussing the education of the frosted flake fringe;
How many times can you run a lawnmower over a dandelion and expect it to not come back as vibrant and green as before, ready to seed? Probably many times. Perhaps no dandelion has been exterminated by these means. Besides the ignorant use of pesticides (I'm sure YOUR DNA is immune to the chemical assault, so keep spraying), digging them out was the most effective way of solving this problem. Trimming the green part does nothing to get at the root of the problem.
Continue Reading 2 comments August 5th, 2009
By Frosty WooldridgePart 2: Pollution
As stated in “Part 1: what we face” of this four part series, “Part 2: pollution” deals with a predicament few understand as to long term consequences. Yes, we create a few laws to mitigate water, land and air pollution, but we continue injecting 72,000 chemicals into our environment 24/7. We exhaust billions of tons of petroleum products, coal burning particulate and worse.
Continue Reading Add comment June 3rd, 2009
Part of the problem is the acceptance of converting wealth and quality of life into currency. Currency as a form of IOU, has led to profligate overconsumption and attendant waste, by the West and indutrialized as well as post industrial nations -- especially the United States. It is easier to turn a redwood tree into toothpicks and then dollars, than the other way around.
Everywhere I see lawn grass, I can envision dandelions for salad and other non or low maintenance edible landscapes. Even though all can be fed if a little common sense were used, that doesn't mean population shouldn't be reduced via lower birth rates.
Continue Reading 11 comments May 30th, 2009
Does it get any better than this? I don't think so: a blowout 69-36 win by Aspen High School over Bayfield in the first round Class 3A playoffs at Aspen High School. Buena Vista looms Saturday--there was mumbling in the stands about quick guards and a Buena Vista big man--but for the moment Friday night Aspen hoops was safe and sound.
Continue Reading 1 comment March 6th, 2009
No school today at the aspen school district-------following a bomb threat made on Thursday afternoon.
At 4 p.m. yesterday, school authorities were alerted to threat written in a boy’s restroom that a bomb was on campus……most students had left by that time----but the pitkin county sheriff’s department evacuated all buildings, conducted a search---and turned up nothing.
As a precaution, classes are suspended today at the Aspen School district.
Continue Reading Add comment March 6th, 2009
In May, 1780, as America took possession of its future and began the process of determining how it would govern itself, John Adams wrote this celebrated passage to Abigail Adams:
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.[1]
One hesitates to contradict so profound and eloquent a patriot, but I would propose that, in this matter, John Adams was deeply mistaken.
Continue Reading 1 comment March 2nd, 2009
