Thought For The Day

  • Thought For The Day

    Smart Kids

    Either I am prejudiced by my old age and kids in school have suddenly become active scholars, or someone needs to rethink this whole issue. I refer to the bill to be introduced in the Texas Legislature regarding posting the Ten Commandments in school classrooms. At least one person thinks that is a surefire way to have students learn/practice them. “Children are a captive audience,” Masci [David Masci, a senior researcher at the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life]  said. “They have to be there a certain amount of time every day. They also don’t fully have the capacity to understand what is necessarily a requirement and what is a…