DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

David came from an immigrant family where he was one of eight children; his parents worked in sweatshops. His dad had a second job at night. Little time was spent with either of his parents, who worked multiple jobs to support the family as they encouraged higher education. “School, go to school,” both parents would tell him, often in a less-than-soft voice as he pleaded to play basketball rather than do algebra. “School is your ticket out of this place we live,” his mother w

The blackboard was always a symbol of fear to me as a child in a Catholic grammar school. Boys who ventured with great trepidation to the board had good reason for their fear because corporal punishment was a regular part of their education, but not mine. It stood there like a black, dull void waiting for that first squeaky touch of chalk and a resultant whack of a yardstick or a pointer, but only for the boys. Viewing the viciousness of the nuns in their zeal to pound knowle

Underfunding education, not funding children's healthcare, and removing the charitable tax deduction are only a few examples of how a despot achieves their goal of creating a new underclass for the benefit of corporations. Think about it and how it has happened in our past. People desperate to escape the cruel and inhospitable conditions in Great Britain willingly signed on to become indentured servants as a means of obtaining passage to the colonies in America. These contrac