Breaking News

TAG: schools

Where is the line between church and state in school?

Unfortunately, when West Virginia makes national headlines, it’s rarely a good thing. And it wasn’t a good thing that NBC, CNN, The Washington Post and The Guardian picked up the story of Huntington High School students  forced to attend a Christian revival and the subsequent student ...

GOP tries to ‘fix’ CRT boogeyman it created

The Legislature is all aboard the “critical race theory” crazy train this session. It has introduced not one, not two, but four anti-CRT bills. These bills are based on a willful, fundamental misunderstanding of what critical race theory is: a tool university-level law students use to ...

Republicans trying to erase history

by LZ Granderson I was a senior in college when I learned a gay man helped save the world. True story. Even after years of history lessons about World War II, I was well into my 20s before hearing of Alan Turing, the man most credited with creating the algorithms that enabled the ...

Jan. 30 letters to the editor

Can’t judge resilience until after recovery The Dominion Post had an article on Jan. 26 titled “They’re resilient — more so than us.” Yes, children are resilient. If you look at the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of resilient is “able to become strong, healthy or ...

W.Va. can’t wait for a ‘rainy day’

For Fiscal Year 2022 (which began July 1, 2021), West Virginia’s revenue collections are $394 million above estimates so far. In fact, just this past December alone, tax revenue was $124 million above what the state predicted for the last month of the calendar year. Which got us thinking ...

Through compassion, we can transform the current culture war

by David Campt America is immersed in a culture war that is a new manifestation of its age-old problem with race. School board meetings across America have devolved into ugly protests about critical race theory. The strategy to rebrand CRT was created, organized and executed ...