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Stop the Emotional Pendulum: From Grit to Fragility — and What We’re Losing
Throughout history, one of the most consistent motifs is the ‘pendulum swing’ – society’s tendency to attempt to correct one extreme and inadvertently lurch into another. Prohibition tried to solve alcoholism by banning alcohol altogether, and accidentally fueled bootlegging and speakeasies; McCarthyism sought to root out communist spies and ended up blacklisting innocent Americans; the…
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Government schools are getting better
Duval school officials are taking a victory lap because the district got an “A” rating from the state for the first time in history. The state ranks individual schools and also districts, giving them letter grades. All of Northeast Florida now consists of A districts, in Duval, Nassau, Clay and St. Johns counties. But the…