Mr. Wolfe, you offer much food for thought. I am astonished, impressed, and saddened by your high school education. The first two adjectives I hope are obvious; I'm saddened because your experience is unique in my experience. I'd like to read the full story someday, but it looks from your substack account that you have more important things to do than write.
I'm certainly no writer - I blog mostly short policy wonk pieces on environmental policy and politics . I also sometimes post photos from my never ending road trip (I live and travel in an old short Skoolie), which I call "wandering the weird scenes inside the gold mine" on Twitter account.
My experience is that Public schools in the 60's were very good - they still taught history and civics (not yet fully unwound to "social studies") and I even had a 6th grade class in "critical thinking" where we would read The NY Times every day (this was during the Vietnam War, so there was plenty of propaganda to critique!). If a public school teacher were to touch on any of this now, they 'd be cancelled, fired or something worse.
Mr. Wolfe, you offer much food for thought. I am astonished, impressed, and saddened by your high school education. The first two adjectives I hope are obvious; I'm saddened because your experience is unique in my experience. I'd like to read the full story someday, but it looks from your substack account that you have more important things to do than write.
Thanks. I started and had planned to use the substack account for posting photos, because I don't have to size reduce them as I must for my blog,
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2022/07/steinbecks-western-flyer-is-back-on-the-water/
I'm certainly no writer - I blog mostly short policy wonk pieces on environmental policy and politics . I also sometimes post photos from my never ending road trip (I live and travel in an old short Skoolie), which I call "wandering the weird scenes inside the gold mine" on Twitter account.
My experience is that Public schools in the 60's were very good - they still taught history and civics (not yet fully unwound to "social studies") and I even had a 6th grade class in "critical thinking" where we would read The NY Times every day (this was during the Vietnam War, so there was plenty of propaganda to critique!). If a public school teacher were to touch on any of this now, they 'd be cancelled, fired or something worse.