Tag: schools

• Education in America – Part Seven

  

  The Making of the Modern Teacher If one wishes to understand what happens in the classroom, one must look first at what happens before the classroom. Teachers do not arrive fully formed. They are trained, credentialed, mentored, assessed, and licensed through institutions that hold definite ideas about what a teacher is for. That is why…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  May 25, 2026

  Education, History, On Family, politics

  children, Education, instruction, kids, Learning, learning is fun, pedagogy, public schools, schools, students, teachers, teaching, writing

• The Triumph of Common Sense Over Ideology 

  

  In January 2023, Jessica Tapia, a physical education teacher at Jurupa Valley High School in California, was terminated after refusing to comply with the Jurupa Unified School District’s policies regarding transgender and gender-nonconforming students. These policies required teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns, allow them to use facilities corresponding to their gender identity, and withhold…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  January 31, 2025

  Education, On Faith, politics

  California, Education, faith, grace, ideology, Jessica Tapia, love, news, politics, schools, teachers, teaching