By Marta W. Aldrich   |  Chalkbeat Tennessee officials expect districts and charter schools to provide students with 180 days of “quality instruction” for 6½ hours each day, even if the coronavirus disrupts classrooms for a second straight year. They’re also warning local school leaders not to expect the state to grant blanket waivers on required instructional time, including four hours […]

By Marta W. Aldrich |  Chalkbeat Tennessee’s simmering debate over standardized testing is heating up during the pandemic as key education groups clash over whether the state should remove the burden of testing from school communities for a second straight year. Groups began lining up both for and against testing after Superintendent Joris Ray, who leads the state’s largest district […]

By Chris Gadd | Nashville Tennessean A revised online learning program is expected to be tested this fall by Dickson County schools in a move to keep homeschool students updated with state and county standards as well as help other students who might need the program. At its June meeting, the Dickson County School Board on first vote approved the […]

Well, school plans are now getting a lot of attention as parents try to determine what is best and safe for their children. Once again, I want to encourage you to be VERY THOUGHTFUL about your decisions. When we look around us today, the disdain for our nation, the ignorance of our history (good and bad),the ignorance of the principles […]

Good Morning! I offer this as an FYI, for you to make your own decision. I found it thought provoking! A March 2020 poll of Americans with 3,000 respondents showed strong bipartisan support for criminalizing speech. About 70% of those surveyed supported government “restricting people’s ability to say things” deemed as misinformation. Nearly 80% endorsed the conscription of health care professionals. […]

Tennessee General Assembly information, click HERE. For information on State Senators, including phone numbers and email addresses, click HERE; for House members, click HERE. For information on legislation, click HERE. Don’t forget that you can now watch the Senate committee meetings and floor sessions online by going HERE; House committee meetings and floor sessions online HERE. Phone calls can go to the legislative Switchboard at 615-741-3011 […]

Ryan T. Anderson / @RyanTAnd / June 19, 2020 Justice Neil Gorsuch’s majority opinion claims to apply a simple and straightforward test: “An employer violates Title VII when it intentionally fires an individual employee based in part on sex.” But he refuses to consider what applying this simple-in reality, simplistic-test actually requires. And not just under Title VII, but under every nondiscrimination law that includes “sex” […]

Just a note:  I have met Dr. Piper and heard him speak.  I would want to read his grocery lists!  He is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). If you don’t read any ot the other articles, read his!! Justice Gorsuch and cronies in […]

Howard Zinn’s radical revisionist ‘history’ book, ‘A People’s History’ of The United States, is the new normal in the American education system. By Evita Duffy, JUNE 19, 2020 A young high school history teacher, named Annie, posted a TikTok video raving about Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” which she explains will be her new classroom textbook. […]

If you are planning to send your children back to school in the fall, you will want to be attentive to what will be taught and how in their classrooms. Continued homeschooling looks better all the time!!! “There Is No Apolitical Classroom” The culture war could be headed for public schools-whether parents like it or not. Max Eden June 19, […]

It is good to see a bit of encouraging news in even if we don’t know how long it will last, we can still enjoy it now. In Eyes of Trump’s HHS, Sex is Now ‘Male or Female’ By Philip Wegmann – RCP Staff June 12, 2020 The Trump administration has a narrow view of sex, and in the eyes of the […]

Good morning It is nice to start with a couple of encouraging articles before getting to one addressing what we thought “appointing better judges” would solve. Heartbreaking does not even touch the feelings that come from reading the Horowitz article Federal Court Upholds Missouri Law Confirming Human Life Begins at Conception  STATE   MICAIAH BILGER   JUN 10, 2020   |   3:35PM […]

Tennessee General Assembly information, click HERE. For information on State Senators, including phone numbers and email addresses, click HERE; for House members, click HERE. For information on legislation, click HERE. Don’t forget that you can now watch the Senate committee meetings and floor sessions online by going HERE; House committee meetings and floor sessions online HERE. Phone calls can go to the legislative Switchboard […]

Good morning! Well, we have survived another weekend and at least it seems that most of the ‘rallies’ were peaceful. I enjoy reading Jonathon Van Maren’s articles. He is a thoughtful writer. Speaking of thoughtful writing, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a letter to President Trump. While I don’t agree with every spiritual point it is worth reading and […]

Tennessee General Assembly information, click HERE. For information on State Senators, including phone numbers and email addresses, click HERE; for House members, click HERE. For information on legislation, click HERE. Don’t forget that you can now watch the Senate committee meetings and floor sessions online by going HERE; House committee meetings and floor sessions online HERE. Phone calls can go to the legislative Switchboard at 615-741-3011 […]

Good morning I don’t know about you, but this morning finds me filled with strong emotions. What happened In Nashville, other Tennessee cities and all across our nation this weekend is heartbreaking and tragic and just evil. To make the whole situation worse, locally it was handled very poorly, to be generous. There is NO WAY that a thoughtful person […]

Tennessee General Assembly information, click HERE. For information on State Senators, including phone numbers and email addresses, click HERE; for House members, click HERE. For information on legislation, click HERE. Don’t forget that you can now watch the Senate committee meetings and floor sessions online by going HERE; House committee meetings and floor sessions online HERE. Phone calls can go to the legislative Switchboard at 615-741-3011 […]

Good Morning! OK, I am annoyed this morning so these memes suit my attitude BUT they are absolutely thought provoking!!  As you can see in today’s post, the fall out from this pandemic hasn’t even been truly realized or measured fully.   FIVE WAYS THE U.S. MILITARY WILL CHANGE AFTER THE PANDEMIC DAVID BARNO AND NORA BENSAHEL, APRIL 28, 2020 The global pandemic […]

Good Morning! Looking at my calendar this morning, my husband and I are in our 67th day of staying home except for doctor appointments and me getting our necessities. Now, let me add, my husband is high risk, so I am being appropriately careful.That is called, acting wisely, regardless of outside limitations placed on me!!! Judging from what I see […]

I suspect you have seen this meme and maybe you have tried to decide how true it is today in our country. During my prayer time Thursday morning, something occurred to me.  Ultimately, will more people be hurt by the near destruction of our economy or the results of the virus? Now before you respond, I know people are dying […]