I’ve been teaching in the Philadelphia school district for almost twenty years.  As the summer is starting to wind down, I am beginning to think about teaching once again and daily life in the school, or at least as it would have been it not been set upon by the China virus.  I wonder greatly how learning will ever be the same amidst not only the disease insidiously visited upon us by the Chinese communist party but also by the rising tide of violence in both our schools and on our streets in recent months.  Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like living in places overwhelmed by violent crime where life is mocked and made perilous by ravening bands of leftist mobs which glorify the destruction of property and even death as societal goods.  The lessons they seemed to have learned in school are “plunder” and with increasing regularity, even “kill!”  Human dignity begins with the rule of law and is followed by behaving as if it...(Read Full Article)