by David Wilkerson | Apr 25, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Tennessee is where John Scopes was famously found guilty of teaching evolution. The same state has now concluded that teachers who are not trusted to stick to the curriculum should be armed to protect their students from gun violence. The House vote was 68-28, with...
by David Wilkerson | Feb 27, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Public education has long been a petri dish through which many of society’s challenges, quirks, triumphs and conflicts have passed. Emerging, in fits and starts from the pandemic, U.S. children are confronting many of the same unique adjustments that their...
by David Wilkerson | Sep 21, 2022 | Opinion
My 14-year-old son participated in some awful calculus today. He heard that there was an active shooter at my school and, though he wanted to text me for assurance that I was OK, indeed, still alive, he feared that a beep or vibration might alert a predator to my...
by David Wilkerson | Aug 24, 2022 | Opinion
I created a private Facebook group nearly two years ago that focused on constructive dialogue. The dream for the group – Disagreeing Agreeably Is an Art – was to create a platform on Facebook that would encourage people from the entire spectrum of philosophical...
by David Wilkerson | Mar 8, 2021 | Opinion
I was in college when email proliferated to the point where largely technologically unaware adolescents had no choice but to adopt it. No stamp and envelope were required, and I was able to share my thoughts with someone who could read it whenever they wanted. It was...
