Update (3/1): There’s a new Christian ezine on the web. Visit and read Christian Women Online!
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It’s funny, in a way, that I have less time to blog now that I’m working from home than when I was working eight hours, five days a week at the day job. 
I’m laboring under a couple of deadlines, so I won’t do much blogging today. Tomorrow…we’ll see.
As an aside, my new friend from the endangered species is a fan of Harry Potter. One more thing in common. I love discussing Book 7 theories. (Only die-hard HP fans will understand.) 
If you’re bored with the posts at LBC, visit Fantasy Fiction for Christians and The Language Artist. If you’re bored with those, peruse my very long blogroll.
Consider this post “open” to anything you want to discuss (within reason). Announcements? Breaking news? A new blog? New job? New toy? An outstanding post?
The following is a letter to the editor from Sunday’s Washington Post:
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An F for Effort
Prince George’s County is a symbol of black success, so why are its children failing?
Six years ago I taught in the Prince George’s County public school system. I lasted about six weeks, then quit rather than be a well-paid babysitter. The problem: a lack of serious students and school officials who feared parents.
When I entered the Prince George’s system, I was a 25-year veteran of the New York City schools. I also had taught for five years in the District and had spent three years as a teacher and an administrator in Virginia’s Isle of Wight County Public School District. I was a product of the New York City public schools, Howard University, Harvard University and Nova Southeastern University. I knew why excellent students succeeded: They studied.
Unfortunately, too many children in my Prince George’s classes did not study. They were allowed to complain their way out of working hard, and the system lacked the courage to tell parents that their children were lazy and that is why they weren’t succeeding. We expect student athletes to practice every day as a means to excellence, but that same expectation of practice and commitment to academics was lacking in Prince George’s.
Prince George’s is a wealthy county with beautiful homes. Its hard-working citizens are mainly high achievers, and its politicians are astute and powerful. Yet the county has the second-worst school test scores in Maryland. Why is no one asking why the children are not working as hard as their parents did to succeed?
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by La Shawn on 02.25.06
in Faith
(Originally posted on Friday morning)
Randy Thomas, a former homosexual washed clean by the blood of Christ (!), reports that one of Exodus International’s billboards was defaced in St. Louis, Missouri. Randy is headed that way to attend a conference on Sunday called, Love Won Out.
Pray for Randy and others attending the conference, especially those still in the lifestyle and seeking answers. “Ex-gay” folks are getting lots of threats.
Related posts:
Addendum: Read Randy’s testimony.
Update (2:00 p.m.): Visit these homeschool bloggers (and check out their sidebars for more blogs and resources):
Spunky Homeschool
Spunky Jr. (homeschooled kid)
Victoria Carrington
Jones Blog
Biblical Womanhood
HomeSchoolBlogger directory
Agent Tim (Adorable homeschooled kid – I had no idea he was a teenager until he told me. Hadn’t seen the pic.)
The Rebelution (homeschooled twins)
The Homeschooling Revolution
Homeschooling Helper
Why Homeschool
Dr. Helen (I don’t know if Instapundit’s wife is a homeschooler, but she linked to the gifted story, and some of the comments are must-reads.)
Homeschool FAQ (Answers “Why? and “How?,” and includes links to various homeschool methods.)
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Because too few black students are enrolling in magnet school programs for the gifted, “educators” in Montgomery County, Maryland, decided to experiment “with new ways to reach out to students who might have special abilities but may not have been recognized through traditional screening methods.” (Source)
In other words, they’ve decided to dumb down the programs for diversity, which almost always means “black.”
These stories are a dime a dozen, aren’t they? I long to read one where students of all colors are held to the same standards, and black students are pushed to compete at top levels instead of “educators” redefining top levels and dragging down standards for everybody. Who does this actually help?
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