Warning: One Way to Damage Public Education
In an imperfect world, public education often becomes the target of complaints about the entire state of education. Although I realize...
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Welcome to the Education with Grandma Blog
Below you will find essays, articles and posts. To read about a specific topic, click on one of the links below and scroll down.
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 24, 2022
What Do We Need to Know About Increasing Class Size?
In a scramble to reduce educational expenses, politicians and educators must examine all possibilities. One idea, supported by Gates and...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 24, 2022
Testing —Too Much of a Good Thing
Sometimes the best intentions have the most frightening consequences. When No Child Left Behind ushered in an avalanche of tests, I’m...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 24, 2022
About Those Vouchers and Choices
A major part of my adult life focused on supporting children in public education. I believed in public schools as a parent, a teacher,...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 24, 2022
Taxes and Education
Note: On March 25, 2015, the Texas Senate “approved a package of bills that would cut taxes in Texas by more than four billion dollars.”...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 20, 2022
Value of Pre-Kindergarten
As of March 9, 2015, the Texas Legislature has money to burn. The Texas treasury is overflowing! Lieutenant Patrick has so much money he...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 9, 2022
Living in Gratitude and Faith
Chris and I received a double blessing this season by having two separate Christmas celebrations. Both brought fun. However, our memories...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 9, 2022
Unacceptable Words Remain Unacceptable
When writing my New Year’s resolutions, I only included one goal: to stop making negative comments about others. Yet, here I sit on day...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 9, 2022
Can the Words of Jesus Guide Today's World?
At first glance, it seems to me that Jesus would be quite a misfit in our current national and international society. I wonder, did he...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 9, 2022
Teachers taking Guns to School?
It feels as though we live in an upside down world where extremism rips apart all traces of sanity and balance. Can we even fathom a...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 9, 2022
Doing What We Can to End School Shootings
Today, I’m writing about my son, David Williuams’ latest book on preventing school shootings. Although I retired from teaching in 2013, I...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
Blowing the Whistle to Honor Teachers
Do you realize that our nation boasts of more teachers than members of any other profession? With sheer numbers, you’d think we could...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
Teachers: Time to Walk and Time to Talk
A message to teachers. . . How about those teachers in Georgia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma? After years of unimpressive pay and lack of...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
Memorial Day —2018
Across the United States, families gather today to have fun. Without detracting from the value of laughter and celebration, I pause to...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
National Gun Violence Awareness Day
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By clinging to Second Amendment fears, we adhere to...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
Is It EVER Right to Hurt Children?
At first, I suspected reporters must surely be mistaken. Taking children away from their mothers presented a disturbing level of...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
Are We Violating the Law As Well As Our Integrity?
The news informs us that children, who have been taken from their parents, will sleep in tents at the border. What level of horror must...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
Answers to Immigration Questions
Although this article is long, I find it helpful and accurate. First, as to why young people who have DACA haven’t just become citizens:...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
REAP WHAT YOU SOW
If the words “You reap what you sow,” hold any truth, my pale skinned grandchildren will probably face a ‘mell of a hess’. For centuries,...
Barbara Frandsen
Jun 8, 2022
WHY BETO?
As a life-long Texan, I will definitely vote for Beto O’Rourke, a fourth-generation Irish American from El Paso, Texas. As a young boy,...
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