American Teachers Must All Speak French. They’re Teaching Us to Surrender!

Maybe I am just channeling my childhood memories of family picnics and fireworks, but remember when the Fourth of July was a holiday to celebrate American Independence and unity? For one day, in the middle of summer, we could all put away the rhetorical knives and try to acknowledge that, despite our differences, we shared a love of our country? Lately, the Fourth seems to have become an excuse for one group of people to question the patriotism of another. Today’s entrant is Thomas Sowell, who takes the opportunity of the holiday to give us a new version of history in an effort to demonize teachers. For my money, nothing says American unity better than a little historical revision that seeks to compare American teachers with those cheese-eating Frenchies (a sure hit with the right wing there). Why did France lose World War... [read full story]