He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, but had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even his occasional mischievousness delightful.
Mark talked incessantly. I had to [...]

Charles Sykes, the author of “Dumbing Down Our Kids”, penned this list of things high school and college graduates did not learn in school. In his book, he talks about how the feel-good, politically-correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule [...]