Say No to School Daze: Planning and Preparing for the Coming Academic Year
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy:” that line from George Gershwin’s opera “Porky and Bess” might serve as the motto for many schoolchildren. No homework for a couple of months, no tests and grades, no racing around in the morning throwing books into a backpack and looking for that lost assignment: the summers of my childhood meant freedom from everything except household chores, and I hope any youngsters reading my words are enjoying similar liberties.
Parents, however, might consider a different approach to summer and schooling.
To reiterate: Thereâs
no justifying what happened at the U.S. Capitol building last Wednesday, when a fringe element on the Right sparked a riot that culminated in the completely preventable deaths of a police officer and an Air Force veteran (three others also died of nonviolent health events) while also unfairly tarnishing the reputation of tens of millions of law-abiding patriotic voters. That said, just as itâs hardly too much to ask for free and fair elections, itâs hardly too much to request a level playing field when it comes to both media coverage of violence and Big Techâs policing antics on social media.