news
David Limbaugh reports on one example of the consequences of the No Child Left Behind Act.
While I laud Bush and Congress for acting to fix the oh so obvious
failure of the public school system to educate, their action was in this
case misguided. Subsidiarity teaches us that governance moved away from
the people is not right, that our society should be governed at the
lowest level capable of handling a given problem. No Child Left Behind
flies in the face of this principle, and here we see the results: it is
predictably being used to further stifle excellence, but, now, parents
challenging this trend must go to federal court, not to a local school
board that they can more easily control.
In their unending quest to blur the distinction between Man and animal,
scientists are experimenting with chimeras, as reported by National
Geographic
here.
Naturally there is some legit research to be done in this area. Some
things we already do to save lives, like replacing heart valves with
those from cows or pigs. But this article rightly questions how far is
too far.
Findlaw
reports
on a pair of school kids now up on felony charges. For what you ask?
They drew threatening stick figures. Yes. Stick Figures. Local6.com
provides
additional detail, though I do not know how long it will be up.
Apparently these stick figures were sufficient to cause "extreme fear"
in another 10 year old. Certainly this could have been handled in some
other fashion...
In other, went to Pub Quiz at the 4Ps last night, and surprise surprise, Jenn came. :-) We had a very good time. I haven't gotten to see Jenn in forever, so it was awesome. PVI wrestled Gonzaga yesterday, Michael lost his varsity match, won his exhibition match. I think he could have defeated the varsity kid, but he gets so discouraged when the other guy has a strong ability to break you down. I know how that is, it is very hard to continually work up, so I do not, cannot, fault him for having lost; he tried hard the whole match.