Politics and its Discontents

This  took place at a school board meeting in Virginia. The rest is self-explanatory.

 ... you generally know where they are coming from. "We must protect our children from sexual grooming and pedophilia. The sexualizatio...

One of the main joys of this part of my life is helping to look after our granddaughter, who is now 18 months old and very, very bright and ...

  There is never a moment in my post-teaching life when I have regretted retiring. The paperwork was bad enough, but in the latter part of m...

  While reading the early part of a recent column by Rosie DiManno, as a Canadian I couldn't help but feel a measure of smugness, but th...

A column by The Star's Heather Mallick dredged up memories of my teaching day, memories that are not altogether pleasant. Many years a...

Can a society that regards books as threats survive? I have my serious doubts, doubts you may share after becoming acquainted with the follo...

Throughout my career as a high school teacher, I believed, as I still do, that education is one of the prime tools by which society can be b...

Yesterday I wrote a post about the Hamilton parent suing the school board for its refusal to notify him when a range of topics objecti...

The implications of this are truly and deeply frightening.

One thing that I have noticed about the far right, and I think this applies both to those in the United States and in Canada, is that they h...