As a Gonzaga grad with a degree from the comm. department, this is especially embarrassing and frustrating. The school isn’t known for its diversity, so hiring the “white lady fired for racial politics” unfortunately doesn't surprise me. Hopefully her students still learn about the First Amendment somewhere down the…

Why hasn’t she been hired to be part of Trump’s campaign staff?

Another tragic story of a white woman being persecuted by the black power structure.

When I started college at a small liberal arts school in 1999, one of my fellow freshmen was a 10-year-old boy. I definitely got the impression that his parents were into the media attention— the kid was on Oprah a bunch of times, they weren’t too shy about interviews, they had a website for/about him, etc— and that,…

I hear that, but if he’s a genius at 12, he’ll be a genius at 14, 15, 16... Why the rush to put him in a situation like this now? How, specifically, does slowing down and letting a kid be a kid (albeit a super genius kid), negatively impact his brilliance?

Fresno State declined the penalty, too.

37 year old father of two from Minnesota here. Jacob Wetterling’s abduction changed the lanscape of my childhood. It did that for a lot of kids. He wasn’t an urban myth. He was a kid riding his bike with his brother and a friend when he was taken. After Jacob Wetterling went missing, the world looked really different…

That’s how I'd like to be remembered.

Fresno State declined the penalty, btw.

You’re on a post about a little boy who was raped and murdered and you’re most worried about internet commenters saying mean things about convicted sex offenders?

So you’re equating stealing with kidnapping, rape and murder? There are a handful of crimes that society can’t be expected to take someone back after they’ve committed them. Throw away the key or execute them. Either way, they shouldn’t be free.

Why would anyone want a friend?

I was 5 when Wetterling went missing. You’re not wrong. There’s not a kid born in the 80's here whose life wasn’t shaped by this tragedy. Obviously, this wasn’t the outcome we all hoped for, but I’m so glad for his family that this ordeal is over. This was one of those things that I didn’t think would ever be solved,…

I read the other article and I have to admit it left me with conflicted emotions.

Beyond being less objective, success in the humanities requires highly developed communication and rhetorical skills. Math, music and other pursuits often produce these prodigies because they are self-contained disciplines, where advancement can occur without concurrent development of other skills.

It’s hard to quantify humanities in a way that lets you sign off on “Okay, this kid knows the material, time to bump them up to the next level” in the same way that math does. Kids in public middle and high schools take math in, what — Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Trig somewhere on the side, Calc, and then the kid…

I have taught middle school for 15 years. Stories like this make me angry. I don't give a shit if he's academically ready for college. He isn't ready for college in far more ways that actually matter.

I wonder whether he would have much in common with kids his own age. The stuff most 12 year olds are interested inprobably wouldn’t interest a kid who was reading about math theorums at age 5.

This stuff kind of weirds me out. Education has a big “develop socially with people who are more or less your social peers” component, and, at least based on this story... I guess I wonder where this kids gets to hang out with people his age.

We haven’t seen a front flip like that by someone with a penis since the end of the East German women’s gymnastics team.