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Back to School Blues
School's in, and PJM's Aaron Hanscom, along with legions of other former teachers, is out. He contemplates the reasons why educators are the nation's most disgruntled group of workers, and so many abandon their teaching careers.
Confessions of a Perpetual Adolescent
PJM's Aaron Hanscom doesn't look his age. Some might even say he doesn't look half his age. But it's whether or not he acts his age that concerns Hanscom most. The most burning question: Why doesn't he feel even "remotely ready to have children?"
Meet the Parents, Part Two
In the first installment of this series on parenting in America, PJM's Aaron Hanscom - a former teacher in South Central Los Angeles - bemoaned the effects of single-parent households on children. Now he looks at our "more advantaged" communities and takes on hyper-parenting (and hyper kids).
Meet the Parents
How much responsibility do parents have for their children's achievement in school? A great deal, contends PJM's Aaron Hanscom, a former elementary school teacher in Los Angeles. Find out what Open House Night at his school taught him, in this first installment of a two-part series on parenting in America.
Born in the U.S.A. — Is it Enough to Make You an American?
When PJM's Aaron Hanscom sees athletes born in the U.S. choosing to compete for Mexico, and Mexican flags at rallies, he gets worried about patriotism among immigrants. Isn't citizenship more than a piece of paper, he asks? Or is waving another nation's flag while simultaneously demanding all the rights afforded to American citizens as benign as eating a burrito on the 4th of July?
“Are There any White Kids at Your School?”
After a six-year stint as an elementary school teacher in the tough LA neighborhood of Watts, PJM's Aaron Hanscom would like to know why wealthy Democrats like John Edwards don't support charter schools or voucher programs. Is choice in education only acceptable to Edwards if parents have his kind of money?
Not A “Rosie” Picture
Rosie O'Donnell might do well to remember - before declaring radical Christianity as threatening as radical Islam - that homosexuality is punishable by death under Islamic law, writes PJM editor Aaron Hanscom. Around the world, Moslem governments and individuals aren't just talking about physically harming gays. They're actually doing it.
Europe in Denial: Lessons Learned in Spain
The cathedrals were beautiful and the cheese was great. But Aaron Hanscom returned from his annual pilgrimage to Spain concerned that while Europeans are finally realizing that radical Islamists pose a threat to their way of life, they remain unsure how to fight back.
Finding Comedy in the Collapse of Europe
To gauge the extent of the demise of Europe, look no further than the story of the male gorilla that escaped at a Rotterdam zoo last month. After managing to get over a moat, the 400-pound primate brutally attacked a woman who had been visiting the zoo regularly to see the animal. Because female gorillas establish prolonged eye contact when they want to mate, biologists concluded that the woman was responsible for the attack. Taking moral relativism to its illogical conclusion, the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium now has signs warning visitors not to stare at the apes. by Aaron Hanscom
Terror War on Campus
In this exclusive Pajamas Media video interview, former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat urges American universities to wake up to the dangers of Islamic radicalism on campus. Shoebat spoke with PJM's Aaron Hanscom at the University of California Irvine, which has been a center of confrontation between Muslim and Jewish students. More by Hanscom on the situation at UCI below.
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