On that Friday in 2019 Rebecca Lear and her colleagues headed to work thinking it was just one more day in a long life. A dozen didn’t live to see the sun set. The survivors lived through hell.
While it is true that Portsmouth students performed worse across the board, there is one silver lining. The school system did achieve “equity,” or equal outcomes, in one way — math outcomes for Asians, Blacks, Hispanics and Whites all collapsed at roughly the same rate!
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Decency and respect demands that in the immediate aftermath of an unimaginable tragedy we take a deep breath and pray for the children and their families.
Readers’ Choice: Biden or Monkeypox?
I hesitate to bring this up, but as someone who was called selfish and a grandma killer because I wouldn’t wear a cloth rag on my face as an amulet against Covid, why are men staging massive gay raves while Covid is still around?
Catholic Clergy v Nancy Pelosi
Atheists, agnostics, liberal Christians and abortion enthusiasts of all stripes - apparently unaware that the Catholic Church is not a poll-driven organization that bows to the prevailing secular winds - howled indignantly about the decision to deny Pelosi communion over her extreme positions on abortion.
The hospitals are understaffed and otherwise under major stress, to the point that patient standards of care have changed.
“The future prosperity of our Commonwealth depends on how well we prepare our students,” the Governor said
Biden’s Speciality: Blame, Excuses And Snippy Retorts
It shouldn’t take moms crawling around supermarket aisles on their hands and knees looking for stray cans of formula or mothers dabbling in the baby formula black market for the Biden Administration to realize they have yet another avoidable crisis on their hands.
Judge Finds Probable Cause Two Smutty Books Are Obscene For Minors
The books in question: “Gender Queer, A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe and “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Mass contain sexually explicit language and images and are entirely inappropriate for young kids. Anyone who’s glanced at them can see that.
Education is in a “national crisis,” said Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears. Americans are no longer close to being the most educated people in the world.
Only Ghouls Use Tragedies To Score Political Points
Is it required that every politician everywhere make a statement - or Tweet - whenever there’s a tragedy?
Elaine Luria: Facebook Fat Cat
If Luria genuinely believes that Facebook traffics in misinformation why would she hold millions of dollars worth of stock in the company?
One of my morning newspapers is The Virginian-Pilot. It used to be an outstanding regional newspaper. Shrunken to a sliver of its former self, it is no longer.
The Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, a career progressive politician unburdened by a law degree, has declared Fairfax County’s support of federal authorities in execution of federal law to be unconstitutional.
Hey, Virginia State Workers, Take Off Your PJ’s
I know, I know, it’s been fun sitting home with your cats since early 2020, when Gov. Ralph Northam shut down the commonwealth to slow the spread of covid-19.
Bad News For Deadbeat Dads: Virginia's Coming For You
Is there a lower form of humanity than a parent who refuses to support his kids?
Scrapping Newspaper Legal Ad Monopolies
No longer will Florida’s government agencies be forced to buy expensive space for legal ads in shrinking newspapers. Instead, those announcements can be posted on websites. Good for taxpayers. Bad for newspapers.
What Happened To America The Land Of Plenty?
If American grocery stores closed when they ran out of baby formula, many would be unable to open today. The nationwide shortage has reached the critical stage and forced desperate mothers to drive from store to store in search of food for their babies.
Leave Supreme Court Justices Alone
This attempt to intimidate and bully the justices on the highest court puts the US on the road to a banana republic. It needs to stop.