PolicyGuy

Friday, August 29, 2003


Summertime Blues
A proposed law in Michigan would force school districts to start the school year after Labor Day. Some schools have started classes already, which strikes me as just plain wrong. Admittedly, the starting date is arbitrary, and the school calendar is obsolete, based on an economy that just doesn't exist anymore. The Free Press reports that schools have added more hours and days to their calendars, which may be causing the pre-Labor Day openings. Now, if the schools spent their time on academics and not on drivers training, wrapping cucumbers with condoms, promoting "diversity and sensitivity" and so forth, they may actually have time to get everything done without bumping up against the traditional end of summer.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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