The Village Skeptic Blog
Help Wanted: CEO for Manchester School District
This article was featured as an opinion editorial in NH Union Leader and also referenced extensively in a staff editorial, School job: Manchester’s needs. With Dr. Goldhardt’s resignation, Manchester School…
Driver’s Ed Teacher Delivers Lesson in Government Dysfunction
There are (at least) three ways government gets almost everything wrong: corruption, equating inputs with outputs, and equating credentials with expertise. This is a story about all three. This week,…
Parents Are In Charge of Education In New Hampshire
This article was featured as an opinion editorial in the NH Union Leader. A recent Washington Post editorial headline read, “Parents claim they have the right to shape their kids’…
Manchester’s Halloween Movie Franchise
This post was featured as an opinion editorial in the Union Leader on Oct-5-2021. In the Halloween movie franchise, the antagonist, Michael Myers, is “killed” no fewer than 128 times…
Manchester Tax Revaluation Calculator
The 2021 property revaluation in Manchester has dramatically altered the tax burden. This calculator will help Manchester residents estimate the impact on their tax bills. Instructions Go to the Vision…
The Social Media Exodus Is a Bad Strategy
Big Tech censorship is real, it’s over the top, it’s unfair, and it’s unhealthy for the country. Conservatives, frustrated over censorship of their viewpoints, are attempting to organize a mass “exodus” from Facebook and Twitter to MeWe and Parler. While I’m sympathetic to this reaction, I have a problem with the strategy. It’s going to backfire.
MAKE SKEPTICISM GREAT AGAIN™
Faith is killing us. I don’t mean faith in God. I mean faith in demigods. For the purposes of this article, it doesn’t matter whether you believe in God or…
What If This Distance Learning Experiment Works?
This article was featured 3/16/2020 in the Union Leader’s opinion editorial section. In response to the recent COVID-19 threat, the NH Department of Education and Manchester School District are implementing…
Education Through the Golden Age Filter
I’m working on an article and accompanying video that asks the question, “Why isn’t public education getting cheaper?” The origin of the question comes from the observation that the digital…