“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things?” The answer is, says the Third Circuit, of course! The decision of the Third Circuit in the recently decided “I [heart] boobies” case has turned the First Amendment rules in … [Read more...] about The Freundian Slip: Free? Speech? Or Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
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The Freundian Slip: The Tune of the Hickory Stick
Those 'Dear Old Golden Rule Days' may be retiring. On June 10, 2014, the California Superior Court struck down that state’s teacher tenure, dismissal and furlough laws as in violation of the California Constitution. Vergara v State of California. Geography lessons well learned, good students all know that California is a long way from Pennsylvania, and what happens in California’s state court … [Read more...] about The Freundian Slip: The Tune of the Hickory Stick
The Freundian Slip: The Farmers and the Cowmen, Vol. 2
We discussed in FS 5 ("What's the Beef?") that charters and traditional public schools should work to find common ground. Charter schools and traditional public schools can join together to celebrate the closure of a school found by a court to have violated the Constitution and state laws. As is our mantra, excellence in education is the ground on which both stand. Converting low performing … [Read more...] about The Freundian Slip: The Farmers and the Cowmen, Vol. 2
The Freundian: Slip What The Dickens!?!?!
In a case that calls up Dickens’ novels exposing the conditions for children in Victorian England, an arbitrator recently returned a teacher to the classroom whose practices seem taken right off the pages of Oliver Twist. The school dismissed the teacher. However, an arbitrator returned the teacher to the classroom despite the fact that the teacher was found to have: Called students loser, … [Read more...] about The Freundian: Slip What The Dickens!?!?!
The Freundian: Slip What’s The Beef?
Charter schools and traditional publics share educational territory. So, like the farmers and the cowmen in Oklahoma, they should be friends. The cause the schools have in common is adequate resources for the goal they share. Rather than quarreling with each other like hungry puppies at an empty puppy bowl, charter schools and traditional publics should turn, not on each other, but to Harrisburg … [Read more...] about The Freundian: Slip What’s The Beef?
