Tag: James Sherlock
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Hormone Treatment of Transgender Adolescents in Virginia – New Concerns
by James C. Sherlock We have discussed at length the controversial policies of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). It is time to consider the impact of Great Britain’s ongoing National Health Service Review of its transgender support to children and young people. It offers new concerns about clinical challenges in the diagnosis and treatment…
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Medical Gender Transition in Children – American Academy of Pediatrics Headquarters vs. the World
by James C. Sherlock Who cares for transgender kids the most and is looking out for their best interests? The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) headquarters leadership; or Dissenting AAP members and the medical societies of some of the leading nations in the science of medicine? A reasonable and important question, since Virginia and the…
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Denial’s Role in Opposing Teaching Credential Reforms
by James C. Sherlock Teaching is an honorable and irreplaceable profession. We have a major shortage of teachers. One of the ways to deal with that long term is to open up the pathways to teaching. One of the programs that has been around forever in Virginia is Troops to Teachers. Bringing people with voluntary,…
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Progressives in Virginia In Position to Overrule Parental Objections to Invasive Child Gender Dysphoria Treatment
by James C. Sherlock The Virginian-Pilot, in an editorial, bemoaned Governor Youngkin’s endorsement of a policy that would require schools to tell parents about their kids’ transexual identity expressions at school. It’s as though the potential consequences of such a policy have never crossed his mind. The sure consequences of opposing that policy were not…
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Be Careful with Survey Results, Especially About Education
by James C. Sherlock I am a prolific reader and analyst of statistics about education. I find it constantly necessary to sort the wheat from the chaff. Chaff is the term I have chosen for this article, not the one I use in private. The results of the latest Education Next Survey of Public Opinion (2022…
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Get Weapons Out of Schools – Start with the Schools Most Threatened
by James C. Sherlock When we talk about getting weapons out of schools, most Virginians don’t have any concept of how many are found in schools every year. Or think they are all in high schools. Or likely both. When they do find out, eyes glaze over thinking of the cost and difficulty of fixing…
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Governor Youngkin Can Restore Parental Rights in the Treatment of Transgender Children in Schools with the Stroke of a Pen
by James C. Sherlock “Gov. Youngkin criticized after calling on teachers with LGBTQ students to tell parents” is a headline in The Virginian-Pilot. Apparently, “Gov. Youngkin calls on teachers with LGBTQ students to tell parents” did not make the cut. Narrative shaping 101. Now consider these statements of government opinion: “If she has to tell…
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The Circle of Government Fecklessness and Homelessness – Newport News Edition
by James C. Sherlock Newport News ought to work. It starts with Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS). I’ll let them describe it. Newport News Shipbuilding is the sole designer, builder and refueler of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy submarines. With approximately $4 billion in revenues and more than 25,000…
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Richmond Times Dispatch’s Flexible “Community Guidelines”
by James C. Sherlock The Richmond Times- Dispatch motto is “Where Your Story Lives.” They fail to define “your.” I posted a comment this morning on a story in the RTD titled “Hanover County School Board introduces transgender policy; discussion is limited.” The headline is unconsciously ironic, but I did not comment on that. Picking…
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Can Teaching Be Fixed to Transform It From a Burnout Job? – A Professional Approach
by James C. Sherlock K-12 teachers all over the state and country report burnout. There are lengthy discussions — OK, arguments — about the reasons for that situation. But no one denies it is happening. One of the attractions of teaching when I was a kid and a young man was that teachers, largely then…
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Equal Time: American Federation of Teachers on Teacher Retention and Discipline in Schools
by James C. Sherlock To balance my reporting on discipline in schools and teacher retention, it is only fair to go to the best progressive source of ideas. To give them equal time. It is a close call, but the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the most progressive and militant of America’s major teachers’…
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School Discipline Issues Meet Unshakeable Progressive Dogma
by James C. Sherlock Moral panic has been defined as a: …widespread feeling of fear, often an irrational one, that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society. Virginia’s progressive community is in moral panic over the refusal of school discipline outcomes to bend to their prescriptions…
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Why are Teachers Quitting? In Virginia Beach, It May Not Be “Mean Parents”
by James C. Sherlock In the latest installment of “Why are Teachers Quitting,” I have come in possession of a summary copy of the 2020 responses of Virginia Beach teachers to a survey conducted by the Virginia Beach Public Schools (VBPS) administration relating to school discipline. Survey results were forwarded by Dr. Donald Robertson, Chief…
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An Innovative Initiative from UVa Shows A Way to Increase Low Cost Housing
by James C. Sherlock In July I published a series of reports here on the lack of sufficient low-cost housing. The University of Virginia is addressing that problem head on in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. The innovation at the core of the program can be applied by Redevelopment and Housing Agencies (RHAs) across the state.…
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Virginia Pre-Trial Release: the True Risks of Recidivism and Failure to Appear for Trial
by James C. Sherlock The goals, good ones, of Virginia’s Pre-trial Services Agencies (PSA) is to advise courts on pre-trial release risks; to supervise the population on pre-trial release to reduce recidivist crime and failures to appear (FTAs) and through both efforts to help assure public safety. By the government’s own evidence, those goals have…