Why National Guard Troops Are Now Driving Public School Buses in This State
By Kerry McDonald As the new academic year begins, a school bus driver shortage has impacted students and families all across the country. According to…
By Kerry McDonald As the new academic year begins, a school bus driver shortage has impacted students and families all across the country. According to…
By Kerry McDonald I watched The Social Dilemma with my 12-year-old son this week and it couldn’t be more timely. A Netflix original docu-drama that…
By Kerry McDonald As remote learning creates more distance between school districts and students, school and state officials are clinging to control however they can….
By Kerry McDonald The outcry over a Harvard Law School professor’s call for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling has been swift and steady. From education…
By Kerry McDonald On a recent weekday morning, the first floor of Tiffany Pierce’s home in Queens, New York, was abuzz with activity. Six children,…
By Kerry McDonald It’s like something out of The Onion: city manager shuts down preschool farm stand out of fear that, if allowed, “we could…
By Kerry McDonald We have long known that the robots were coming, but now that they are here, the mismatch between our modern education system…
By Kerry McDonald My eight-year-old daughter and I recently read about the Salem Witch Trials. She had heard about Salem from a friend who visited…
By Kerry McDonald Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: In fact, the whole…
By Kerry McDonald The growth of freelancers, or those working in the “gig economy” as their own independent contractors, is reshaping the way many Americans…
By Kerry McDonald Parents who remove their children from the confines of the conventional classroom are not running away from reality. They are running towards…
By Kerry McDonald Our modern homeschooling freedoms come with the responsibility to protect those freedoms. Homeschoolers today have it easy. Many of us were in…