Family Tree by Signe Wilkinson for March 01, 2023

the trouble with core curricula, there is no flesh on the fruit, no meat on the bones, and no desire to achieve, beyond the next standardized test.

I understand your feelings, Twig. I don’t understand what they are teaching children these days. If you don’t know your history, you are bound to repeat it someday.

Having grown up in the ’50s and ’60s MLK is not a mysterious figure for me. He was a hero in my book. I followed him regularly in the news.

sad itsn’t it that parents have no responsibilities on teaching their children

Eli Whitney’s ‘Cotton Gin’. ‘Gin’ was short for ‘engine’.