While we’re still talking about putting cameras on police, I figured I’d toss this out: let’s put public-access cameras in school classrooms. If parents could see how their darlings sometimes behave toward their teachers, we’ll end up with a different world. And I’m thinking this is one teacher-accountability idea even unions wouldn’t oppose.

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Several of my high school classes were taught by people whose first name was “Coach.” I used to resent that. My biology teacher, for example, was obviously much more interested in the Ray High School baseball team than he was in coming up with creative lessons about frogs and such. After I graduated, I became […]

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For more than two years now, a friend and I have been day-dreaming about starting a school.  Both of us are short on school-starting credentials, however.  My friend, Chris Espinosa (known to many Texas students as “Uncle Chris,“)  is not even a certified teacher, and, while I do at least have that much formal qualification,  […]

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This article is about my nightmarish experience dealing with the main problem in American public schools: teachers simply do not have time to do their jobs properly.

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