The Digest is pleased to bring you our EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW featuring RIP SNORT, INTREPID REPORTER and FRIEND OF THE TRUTH, and THE DAWG HIMSELF in a wide ranging review of the Rick Perry for President Campaign. SNORT: Snort, here. Rip Snort. Intrepid Reporter. Friend of the Truth. DAWG: Yes, yes, we know all that about [...]

I would not want to be an educator these days.  Consider the case of Principal McGonigle of the Blue Mountain School District in Pennsylvania.  One month after he disciplined an 8th grade honor student for dress code violations, Mr. McGonigle discovered that this student had created a fake profile of him on MySpace.  The profile [...]

I drove past a public school today that had a sign out front that said “HOORAY!  IT’S RIF DAY!!”  This struck me as strange.  Why would public school employees be excited about a Reduction in Force?  Don’t they know that a RIF means that people are going to lose their jobs?  Who would be in [...]

If you are waiting for the board to emerge from closed session so that the meeting can adjourn and you can go home, we have a suggestion.  “Accidentally” trip the fire alarm.  That will put an end to whatever lofty discussion they are having back there in the closed session room. Let’s face it—sometimes the [...]

A student in Arizona kicked his principal in the knee, but not hard enough to cause “extreme physical pain.” Why did that matter? Because in order to justify placing the student in an IAES (Interim Alternative Educational Setting) for 45 days, the school had to show that the principal suffered “extreme physical pain.” This case [...]