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By Selwyn Duke Like many alive today, I had to read The Catcher in the Rye in high school. I can’t really say I learned much from the book, although, just to be fair, I must point out that I wasn’t exactly a dedicated student at the time. But the work was supposed to be…
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By Selwyn Duke Recently I wrote a piece about the Ponce de Leon, Florida, school board, which recently lost a free-speech case filed against it by the ACLU and a student. At issue were the actions of former Ponce de Leon High School principal David Davis, who was accused of stifling free expression by prohibiting…
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By Selwyn Duke If there ever was an example of inmates running an asylum, it’s the modern government-school system. Thanks to numerous court rulings, students can now buck authority with the freedom to wear clothing and espouse political and social messages that their school – perhaps reflecting the wider community’s standards – deems objectionable.
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By Selwyn Duke Mr. Duke: Thanks for your essay, "The war on boys: Where feminists and men’s rights activists go wrong" and for drawing attention to this issue. I’m writing to say that, in my opinion, you’re off base in saying that schools lack discipline and are all about "feel-good schemes."
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By Selwyn Duke A little while back, I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) who was charged with "racial harassment" merely for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book (for background, read my piece here and my follow-up here). This story had left my radar screen, and…
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By Selwyn Duke One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the characteristics of feminists. Men get blame for being history’s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit for being its innovators and healers. We will hear about how…
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By Selwyn Duke The St. Petersburg Times is running an article by one Melanie Hubbard, an erstwhile college professor who decided to take a foray into teaching high school. She speaks of classroom horror stories; of undisciplined, uncivilized "students" who have no respect for anyone or anything; of an environment in which the inmates run…
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By Selwyn Duke The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of being charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding. Sampson tells his story:
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By Selwyn Duke Going to college has become a rite of passage. Like a high school diploma, it’s now often expected that a student will go on to earn — or should I say "get" — a bachelor’s degree. After all, this is how we increase our earning potential, right?
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By Selwyn Duke There is another in a long line of articles about the striking lack of knowledge among today’s youth. Metro.co.uk writes:
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