“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
This week, amidst great fanfare, the State General Assembly came to a close. For many, it couldn’t have come fast enough.
I would argue that this year’s legislative session produced an overabundance of bad bills. Especially when it came to public education. From bills that devoted millions in resources to a problem that we can’t even measure, learning loss, to attacking transgender athletes, whose numbers we can’t even measure, this year legislators favored bills that favored emotion over minds.
The bizarre moments for me were when the General Assembly ignored conservative tenets despite being a conservative supermajority. The size of the government was grown. Power was shifted away from local communities to the state. The state enacted laws that seemed to indicate that local communities were incapable of solving their own issues without the heavy hand of a central government. It’s almost like Democrats without book knowledge were running the state.
The senate government even went as far as trying to pick winners and losers, going as far as to CONTINUE READING: THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY – Dad Gone Wild