Some kids are just not designed to learn by sitting at desks. Many brilliant young people tend to get easily bored, in need of hands-on activity. We need them! Yet many parents have a wrong attitude toward trade schools, thinking jobs in labor are less respectable than what a college degree offers.
Independent schools, especially religious schools, are one area that many sadly overlook as a possible incubator of principled pluralism.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced the indictment of fifty people, including a pair of well-known actresses, for their participation in a series of schemes to get their kids admitted to elite colleges and universities.
In a society that measures us by where we went to college, how much money we make, what we drive and wear, where we live, how we look, and how popular we are, these allegations should not surprise us. Does anyone think that the number of parents using illegal means to help their children succeed is limited to the fifty people named in the FBI’s indictment?
I received yet another inquiry today: “Do you have any recommendations for a student minister? We just can’t seem to find one. We’ve been looking for over six months.”
Will you help get rid of all guns in America so another child doesn't need to die?
What does a voluntary Bible class in a public school have to do with the First Amendment? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
For years, left-leaning social activists have been attempting to push “hate crimes” legislation through Indiana’s part-time legislature and onto the Governor’s desk. Much to the chagrin of complicit state media like the Indy Star, which threw away any sense of objectivity on the issue a long time ago, it hasn’t happened to this point. But that may be about to change.
It was clear that even on an evangelical Christian campus, truth is anathema to those who deify “diversity.”
School of Nursing Associate Professor Dr. Kim Little and Liberty alumna Terrill Zentmeyer traveled to Guatemala in March to carry out research for Zentmeyer’s honors thesis. (Photo by Chris Breedlove)
