Your Turn Reader reaction
Regarding the Aug. 1 story “Mr. Right” by David Montgomery about Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Pam Harms, Dumfries: The piece on Ken Cuccinelli, with his “Don’t tread on me” regalia, reminded me of my favorite quote by Alan Wolfe: “Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.” And, considering Cuccinelli’s
infamous attempt to do away with policies banning discrimination against gays on campus, I appreciated that the couple featured in the Aug. 1 Date Lab was two men. Good work!
Regarding the Aug. 8 story “Separate but Equal” by Karen Houppert Virginia Pasley, Alexandria:
I really enjoyed the article but thought that it was kind of scraping the barrel for controversy. The educators and parents interviewed in the story all seemed to think that single-sex education was helping the children. The only people really opposed were not educators but a neuroscientist who said girls’ and boys’ brains aren’t different (though she admitted they develop differently), and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, which advocates better schooling in general (and who doesn’t?). I think most people who have
worked with children have noticed a difference between how boys and girls learn. If educators agree and think more
training and effort should be put toward reaching both groups — and if the whole experiment is only a few years old — I don’t see the need to gin
up controversy. Of course new strategies should be
tested, but if a school has the resources to split grades in half, and the teachers are genuinely trying to help children learn in a comfortable way, it seems silly to focus on critics who are not familiar with the struggles of the classroom.
Regarding the Aug. 22 “First Person Singular” John Cahillane, Washington: Tell Amanda Long and Jelena Zivkovic they should write a book. I loved it, especially: “Americans do a lot of walking the dog. In Serbia, our dogs know how to go on a walk alone.”
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