My thoughts on education, or yet another new blog

Just a little introduction about this blog and me. To begin, I actually started this blog account sometime last year when somebody posted something in a Blogger blog, and I felt strongly enough about it to respond. Don't you know it, they made me start a blog account! At that time I had two blogs going already, more fits than starts, and I had no need of another blog. So naturally I never posted.

Fast forward to today. Since then I have abandoned one of my blogs for lack of motivation on the part of myself and no discernable interest on the part of the readers. I've started several more on a variety of topics unrelated to any previous, and now I feel that I need to spin off a topic or two - one blog tending to go several ways simultaneously - so I decided to start by putting one of the new blogs here.

In fact, I've been saving up a few topics I've run into that didn't seem to fit at all in any blog I'm presently keeping, so I've got a few posts planned out in advance.

This blog is going to be my observations, perspectives, and analysis on education. That could mean a lot of things to different readers and writers, and yes, it can be all those things. I have been an eccentric, opinionated person all my life, and I have not let the fact that I earned a teaching certificate a few years ago prevent me from forming my own opinions. In the past I've been interested in homeschooling, which can take you way out to the edge of the envelope. I see things happening in schools around me, I read what is written about what is supposed to be happening, and I shake my head in disbelief.

The education system we have is based on a great many unsupportable premises, as are the positions of most opponents, so there will be plenty of issues for me to argue over. Please bring up points that I have missed - sometimes they will give me more material to use for future entries. But remember that this is my blog. I will attempt to discuss your position with you civilly...but if I see your arguments as baseless and self-serving, I will tell you that right out, and when I am done with it the discussion will end.

Perhaps my goal should be to offend everybody equally so as not to discriminate unduly. That is a noble goal, and a challenging one. We'll see how I do.