I spent my usual 30 minutes writing an insightful article on today’s educational challenges. I proofed it (as best as I normally do) and then I hit the “Publish” button. But nothing happened. And then it all disappeared. The tree fell in the forest, and only I heard it.

I am not going to redo it. And maybe what I said was obvious. Basically, I listed the educational challenges that face schools today that didn’t exist in the 1940s and 1950s. They are basically technology driven. The need to teach how to use technology is new and time consuming, and necessarily means that some items that used to be on the curriculum now had to be dropped. But beyond that, technology means that kids today have many more addictive diversions than we had and that many of those diversions are much more destructive than helpful, that technology in class can interfere with teaching, and that what kids see on their various devices regarding drugs, sex, bullying, etc., and what they see about their uber-talented peers on apps such as TikTok further disrupts the educational process by giving them attractive alternatives, many or most of which are more harmful than beneficial.

That’s about it. Sorry you couldn’t see more. BUT……take this opportunity to look at yesterday’s blog about energy independence. It got many fewer viewers than normal – and I think it’s one of the more informative posts that I have written.

That’s it for today.