Posts Tagged: Wisconsin

BustED Pencils Trending News: Religious Reasons Yinz; Tim & WI movement; Adorable Girls Parody

  The inherent worth and dignity of every person.  Yinzercation creator/blogger Jessie B. Ramey, PhD writes one for yinz guys. The Religious Reasons My Kids Won’t be Taking the Test https://yinzercation.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/the-religious-reasons-my-kids-wont-be-taking-the-test/ One of the founding members of United Opt Out (Tim) helps opt out gain traction in WI. As Wisconsin’s new Badger Exam rolls out,… Read more »

Wisconsin Education Policy: Part 1 Hail to the king. Part 2. Let the bodies hit the floor.

Part 1. Once again our elected officials have decided to intervene (here and here) in matters that deal with public education and as usual they continue to muck around—and if they get their way—make things worse for children, but reward campaign donors. First, in a blatant attack on one of our foundational democratic institutions, our elected officials have decided… Read more »

The choice? Closer to the heart.

“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice” I remember listening to these lyrics for the first time when I was in middle school.  It was later in my life when I finally “heard” the lyrics. For those of you that can place the lyrics with the song, you know what I’m… Read more »

Wisconsin Senate Bill 1: Less Flogging is still Flogging

As most of you know the Wisconsin House republicans had a hearing on their destroying public schools accountability bill (Assembly Bill #1) a few weeks ago.  Read here for a review of that disastrous day.   It’s now been two days since I went to the capital in Madison to testify against Senate Bill #1.  In case… Read more »