New Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment

eggnogablog:

New findings by Harvard Medical School researchers confirm that it’s not the children who are failing, it’s the schools we place them in too early. These researchers discovered that children who start school as among the youngest in their grade have a much greater likelihood of getting an ADHD diagnosis than older children in their grade. In fact, for the U.S. states studied with a September 1st enrollment cut-off date, children born in August were 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than their older peers.

New Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British playwright and novelist.

Everything in nature and in society inherently tends toward deterioration, and therefore fighting for a society is always inherently an uphill battle. This is why Conservatives assert that a close eye should be kept on “change”; because the easiest “change” for a society to manifest is a slide backward. We must always ask ourselves whether a particular change is a genuinely prudent one;  one that has proven its merits over time. As   President Millard Fillmore warned we must not fall into the trap of mistaking change for progress.

(via philosophicalconservatism)

Source: philosophicalconservatism

A Survival Strategy for Conservatives

Investments
must be made by conservatives in the news reporting business, not to
counter leftist propaganda with conservative propaganda, but to have a
chance to explain all sides of a story clearly. The adage “The best
defense is a good offense” applies to politics as well and conservatives
would be wise to initiate steps to retake back ground lost over the
past years.  Such as demanding the right to have God put back in our
schools, to have English as the official language, and verify that only
United States citizens have the right to work and vote in this country.

“demanding the right to have God put back in our
schools

“ as long as where teaching the philosophy and not demanding the faith

it may be a decade or so too late for this either way

A Survival Strategy for Conservatives

France’s Riots Aren’t Just About Gas Taxes, But About The West’s Decline

cultml:

While protests and car-burnings are actually common in France, what’s
happening now is much worse than usual and will not go away anytime
soon. What observers should know is that this is not about fuel prices
or Macron’s incompetence; this is about the fall of the West.

People have long complained of France losing its soul by becoming a
secularized, progressive, socialist welfare state shortly after two
miserable losses in the two world wars. After being known for its fine
arts, beautiful landscapes, rich Catholic tradition, genius philosophers
and scientists, and famous monuments, people now see France as a
stagnant irrelevant pool of decadence (this descent is captured well in
Thomas Merton’s description of the country in Seven Storey Mountain).

France’s Riots Aren’t Just About Gas Taxes, But About The West’s Decline

A Standing Army for the European Union? | National Review

cultml:

Assuming that such an army is raised, what makes its existence worth
additional consideration is that the political path of the EU is
incapable of being the subject of proper debate. Since the European
Treaty can be changed only by a majority vote of its signatories, there
is no real way for members to challenge its inner workings. There is
only one path: towards “more Europe.” And that leads to the ongoing
diminishment of the nation and those would defend it. But this
deterministic path is now threatened by the increasing number of peoples
in Europe who view the surrender of their sovereignty as an absolute
loss. The Union cannot be reformed along their lines. Either it snaps or
it defends its present course. On this point, Macron is providing
leadership. But is anyone really following him? And if not, will they be
made to?

A Standing Army for the European Union? | National Review