As school wraps for the summer, these notes provide a view into today’s classroom. 1. Students tell me they need their iPhones because their brains are wired differently than mine. One said, “Mr. Miller, we need the dopamine hit.” 2. By accident, an intruder alarm warning went off in one of our district schools, and […]

A recent article in the Morning Sentinel reported, “A federal lawsuit is once again challenging Maine’s limits on sending public money to religious schools.” The discrimination argument the plaintiffs are using now is the opposite of their previous argument. One commentator on the above article summed up the plaintiff’s argument by writing: “Previous arguments claimed […]

So many political issues, from debates over abortion and school curriculum materials to budget cuts, are framed as attacks on “women” as a group, and polls and statistics showing that women’s votes lean left are usually cited as evidence on behalf of the idea that the Republican Party is anti-woman. But these gender gap statistics […]

With Father’s Day upon us, many of us will take a moment this weekend to show our appreciation to our dads. But what is often forgotten is that around 20% of fathers in the United States will likely not hear their child say “Happy Father’s Day.” For a number of reasons, they are absent fathers. […]