Michael Bates: August 2018 Archives
Disable Shared Experiences in Windows 10 v1703
If you're tired of Windows 10 nagging you to link accounts across your devices, this appears to be a way to turn it off, using the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). (The first half of the article doesn't eliminate the nagging. Windows continues to tell you you need to "fix" something, because you won't let Microsoft all up in your business.
It's Not Real School Accountability If No One Is Held Accountable
Brandon Dutcher writes:
"Here in Oklahoma, the majority of students lack proficiency in math, science and English language arts. So how many schools have been closed? How many grown-ups have lost their jobs or had their pay reduced? Who's being held accountable for the damage?
"One former local superintendent once remarked that it's heartbreaking to 'see a student who is valedictorian from a school and they made a 14 on the ACT.'
"He's absolutely right. So who got fired?
"When I reminded one teacher that Oklahoma has 400,000 school-produced illiterates, he chose to look on the bright side. 'I would be willing to bet they still had teachers that cared for and about them,' he replied.
"Well, sure. Even so, their lives have been altered forever. Vast sums of money and God-given potential were wasted. Who's being held accountable for the damage?"
Oh, the Inhumanities! | Power Line
Stephen Hayward writes:
"But there is one more point to be made about faith-based colleges like Earlham. One thing that is largely unreported these days is that most supposedly Christian or evangelical colleges have become just as rotten as the worst secular universities. Scratch a supposedly 'faith-based' college, and you'll find nearly all of their leading sentiments fall in line with today's secular left. I recall visiting George Fox College in Oregon a few years ago--like Earlham, a Quaker-affiliated school that is supposedly different from secular universities--and being harangued by a deep leftist professor from the philosophy department about Foucault. You will find this at Gordon College, Wheaton, etc, etc. I've known a couple of very liberal graduates of Earlham tell me they found the political correctness of the place to be stifling, and consequently that their humanities instruction there was gravely defective. If this is what's on offer from supposed faith-based colleges, you might as well just save your tuition money and send your kid to Evergreen State."
