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Good morning! Today we’re covering the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Los Angeles over its sanctuary policies.
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DOJ Sues Los Angeles Over Sanctuary Policies The Trump administration sued Los Angeles on June 30, alleging that the city’s sanctuary policies prevented immigration officers from doing their jobs. In the lawsuit, Attorney General Pam Bondi invoked the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which establishes that federal laws and treaties are the supreme law of the land.
“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” Bondi wrote in a statement posted on social media platform X Monday. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level—it ends under President [Donald] Trump.”
The Justice Department alleges that the city ordinance and other policies put in place in Los Angeles “intentionally discriminate against the Federal Government by treating federal immigration authorities differently than other law enforcement agents through access restrictions both to property and to individual detainees.” (More) |
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 | | An Educational Philosophy That Nourishes the Whole Child | | “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life.” Charlotte Mason wrote that sentence to encapsulate the philosophy of her educational program. It was also the motto of the Parents’ National Educational Union, an organization that Mason founded in 1887 to test and implement her educational concepts.
The idea that education involves discipline isn’t surprising to most readers. But considering education an “atmosphere” or “a life” might strike contemporary parents and educators as more unexpected or even mysterious. Yet it speaks to the characteristic expansiveness of Mason’s approach.
For her, a true education stretched to encompass the entirety of a child’s encounter with the world, like a tree spreading its branches. To achieve this, Mason believed that children’s souls needed to be awakened through an encounter with knowledge.
While notions of education today are likely to evoke images of classrooms, workbooks, textbooks, and GPAs—all of which are confined to one important but limited type of learning—Mason’s ideas of education aren’t restricted to industrial education.
In the Mason model, education is more about human development—the full flourishing of the human person—than about test scores and career training.
As Cindy Rushton wrote in “A Charlotte Mason Primer”: “True education takes place in real life. When we begin to see all of life as a classroom, we will truly equip our children to become self-educated, life-long learners, who delight in learning.”
This article briefly introduces Mason’s educational thought, a paradigm that harkens back to older forms of learning. These older methods look beyond vocational training (without neglecting it) to the broader horizons of what it means to be a well-rounded human being. | | | |
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