I have a book titled Furry Logic: A Guide to Life’s Little Challenges by Jane Seabrook. I picked it up as I was casually browsing in a bookstore one day and embarrassed myself by laughing out loud. Furry Logic is page after page of a variety of animals and one-sentence statements about life. Each animal is painted by Seabrook in watercolor with a tiny brush that has only one hair. That is the way she gets such incredible detail. I bought several of them.
As I started this post, I thought about all the events that had happened while I was away and wondered how I would catch up, making sure you know about them. Then I remembered the page in Furry Logic of a meerkat with the remark, “I am not tense. Just terribly, terribly alert. (I hope Jane Seabrook will forgive me for making a copy of her meerkat. Please be assured it doesn’t do justice to her work.) Anyway, that little meerkat persuaded me that I may not have to try to tell you about everything. I just need to make you terribly, terribly alert.
Schooling has been challenging this past year. Whether your kids are getting their lessons staring at a computer or sitting in a classroom, you need to be alert about what they are being taught. Some red flag courses are The 1619 Project—revisionist history at its worst, and Critical Race Theory—where all people with “white” skin are guilty of racial supremacy, must beg forgiveness, and somehow make up for their evil actions and feelings. These courses are designed to make white kids ashamed and guilty. The thing is, most kids never felt the way this course says they feel about kids with a different skin color. Black kids are deprived of a sense of achievement, as they are made out to be victims, entitled to the privilege this course says is now possessed by the whites. Isn’t that reprehensible? Aren’t we all God’s children, made in his image?
I won’t detail either of the courses, but if you’d like to learn more, use the comment form on this website. You can learn about how misinformation is being brought into other courses, e.g., math and history, from my book, Who’s Got Dibs on Your Kids?. And get Jane Seabrook’s Furry Logic to lighten up a bit.