Let’s take a closer look at the options available in a voluntary society. We’ll start with private schools. For the purpose of this essay, I’m going to assume that the current standard of a single teacher teaching a class of 30 students in a building containing multiple classrooms is the market chosen system. It may or may not in fact be what the market comes up with, and we can’t know what that actually is until we have a market in education.
From Anitjingoist at Apathy Online
Someone lit themselves on fire outside the Cheshire County Superior Court yesterday, in Keene, NH. On the police scanner, the KPD mentioned finding a car nearby that could have been his, registered to a Thomas Ball in Massachusetts. A Thomas Ball, from Massachusetts was involved in a court case around 2007: “Thomas Ball v Monadnock Family Services” A Thomas Ball from Mass. Also signed an online petition here: http://bit.ly/lykCr0, where he states:
The authorities are forcing parents to choice between the loyalty to their families and the loyalty to our government. The government will lose this type of contest.
It is likely that Thomas Ball lost this court case and felt it was an extreme injustice, especially if it involved his children and possibly loosing custody of them.
UPDATE: There is a facebook group scheduled to be archived that was created to provide “Help for men, and women, arrested for domestic violence. Shared parenting for divorced parents.” It is admin’d by a Thomas Ball, whose profile is here: Thomas Ball.
He also appears to have run a website: http://jimbrownprinciple.com which is the only reference to the case “Thomas Ball v. Monadnock Family Services” but is no longer online.
UPDATE 2: Thomas’ Ball’s story about Monadnock Family Services (PDF) (Google Cache Link)
Mr. Ball also sent a last statement to the Keene Sentinal
There are two basic versions of the Golden Rule, with a bunch of variations found in virtually every major religion in the world. It is so common it prolly predates religion and written language.
1. Don’t do to others, as you don’t want done to you. (Negative version)
2. Treat others as you want to be treated. (Positive version)
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June 20th-26th – join perhaps 1,000 liberty-oriented people at Porcfest!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzNjARdUxM
More from Jason Talley of the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ok1zUrBZgY
Kudos to Kristin Blais, Christopher C. Coates, Neil W. Donegan, Mark Nugent and Kris E. Roberts, for resisting the anti-drug hysteria. From The Sentinel:
Darrel L. Beymer will be allowed to continue teaching in the Keene School District — if he accepts terms set by the Keene Board of Education. …
For the past 16 years, Beymer has taught 3rd grade at Keene’s Symonds Elementary School.
In October, he pleaded guilty in Keene District Court to misdemeanor charges of possessing marijuana and criminal trespass. …
There’s been no evidence that Beymer used marijuana on school property or while acting as a teacher, which would have violated the district’s drug policy.
At the meeting, held on Nov. 29, board members Kristin Blais, Christopher C. Coates, Neil W. Donegan, Mark Nugent and Kris E. Roberts voted to reinstate Beymer.
Studies find that good teachers have a large positive impact on student performance, and Beymer fits this description. One commenter says, “I was at the hearing and … the majority of the evening was spent on his remarkable talent and the respect that the parents, teachers and children have for him.” It would have been a shame for the students of Symonds Elementary to lose this asset as a result of his “crime”.
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