Dana Blankenhorn

Pants on the Ground or The Politics of Sagging

This has been going on in my neighborhood for some years now, black (usually) teenagers walking around with their pants down below their hips and their underwear showing.

A lot of people are disgusted by it. Some even want to ban the practice. But recently I had a little thought experiment and reached a different conclusion.

 

The Education Revolution

Think of this as Volume 15, Number 37 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy.

---

Since before my own kids entered school people have been trying to use technology to revolutionize education. (To the right, a hallway where one of my kids went to school.)

They have failed, for two reasons:

1. Desktop FAIL. Before teachers could learn the tool the tool was obsolete.

2. Politics