To The Class of 2020

To The Class of 2020

This post may contain affiliate links. You can read my disclosure page for more information.   To the Class of 2020: There’s no sugarcoating it. You got robbed. Here you were, coasting along in your Senior year, headed for Spring Break, and then March...
Coronavirus Cancellations: 10 Things To Do With Your Time

Coronavirus Cancellations: 10 Things To Do With Your Time

This post may contain affiliate links. You can read my disclosure page for more information.   Well, we have certainly been through some stuff in the past week or so, haven’t we? The Coronavirus has taken full hold of the world and life as we knew it is on...
We Need a Return to Civility

We Need a Return to Civility

This post may contain affiliate links. You can read my disclosure page for more information.   Is it just me, or does it seem like we are all living on a playground overrun by schoolyard bullies? I wrote a bit about this last year when I blogged about why we...
Bulletproof Backpacks–Do They Work?

Bulletproof Backpacks–Do They Work?

School shootings. How I wish they were not something we even know or have to worry about. But there were 24 school shootings in 2018 where someone was hurt or killed and 22 school shootings in the first half of 2019. And it continues. There were two back to back...
Thoughts on the Betsy Ross Flag/Nike Controversy

Thoughts on the Betsy Ross Flag/Nike Controversy

  I hesitate to wade into it, but we need to talk about this. Last week, Nike released a new athletic shoe that featured what is known as the Betsy Ross Flag, presumably timing the shoe release with Independence Day.     Then Colin Kaepernick, the...
Change to the SAT: The Adversity Index

Change to the SAT: The Adversity Index

UPDATE: This blog was posted in May 2019, and on August 28, 2019 word came from the College Board that they had heard parents’ concerns and made the decision to not include the Adversity Index in its consideration of student college applications.  ...