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Trillions in Spending, Trillions in Debt, and Schooling’s Piece of the Pie

by Carol A. Josel | Jul 14, 2023 | Articles, Credit card debt highest in history, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News

  There never seems to be enough of the green stuff to go around, and sometimes songs are written about it, like Abba’s “Money, Money, Money,” which starts off with: “I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to payAin’t it...

Porn Has Gone Mainstream and Our Kids Are Watching

by Carol A. Josel | Jan 29, 2023 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact

Growing up in the restrictive 50’s and 60’s, much of what I wanted to do was off-limits. Wasn’t allowed to wear makeup—not even lipstick.  Cursing, too, was frowned upon; even telling my sister to “shut up”  got me a scolding. Among the universal...

Social Media Ensnaring Our Kids: Hook, Line, and Sinker

by Carol A. Josel | Jan 6, 2023 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making News, Parenting

Though I rely on it every day, am not a big tech fan. Not anymore. Sure, I love keeping up with faraway friends. And no more card catalogs and endless book shelf searches, but I still miss the library itself, its quiet, studious air… Just don’t really need it...

Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2 – May 6, Falls Short

by Carol A. Josel | May 2, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News

  Every May, Teacher Appreciation Week comes around, five days set aside once a year to recognize the work of educators. But is it enough? I mean, really… When the Pandemic hit, teachers were applauded for transitioning from in-person to remote teaching; everyone was...

The Holocaust and the Question: Who Has the Right to Forgive on Behalf of Another?

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 27, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Quotable Quotes

   In Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, he tells about when, as a young Jewish concentration camp prisoner, he was taken from a concentration camp to sit at a dying German soldier’s bedside. He listens as the soldier confesses to helping herd hundreds of...

Biden, Our First President to Call the Deaths of Some 1.2 Million Armenians a Genocide

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 21, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact

“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” ~ Adolph Hitler, August 22, 1939   She said she came into this world barefooted and would leave it the same way. Handing her shoes to her grandson, she met her death with countless other Armenians at...
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