Archive for Hannah Lapp
Book Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143 • 120 pages • $9.95 paperback If John Taylor Gatto were introducing his book to us, he’d do us the favor of introducing himself first. In order to do justice to Mr. Gatto and his eye-opening book, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, [...]
1Feb1993 | Hannah Lapp | 0 comments | ContinuedAmericas Child Protective System: Is It Really Protection?
Hannah Lapp is a dairy farmer and writer in Cassadaga, New York. In San Diego, 8-year-old Alicia Wade was plunged into two and one half years of foster care after a sex abuse allegation was mistakenly pinned on her father. A subsequent investigation of the county’s Child Protective Services found the agency biased against parents [...]
1Dec1992 | Hannah Lapp | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Home-Birth Controversy
Hannah Lapp is a dairy farmer and writer in Cassadaga, New York. Modern America has much to say about rights and opportunities for women, even down to the right to terminate a pregnancy. However, when it comes to nurturing and bringing their offspring safely to birth, American women often find their options severely restricted. More [...]
1Jun1992 | Hannah Lapp | 7 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse by Richard Wexler
Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197 • 1990 • 369 pages • $21.95 cloth The growing incidence of domestic violence and child abuse in America has provided politicians with an irresistible opportunity for expanding the dominion of government into the most private reaches of its citizens’ lives—family relationships. Our modern child welfare [...]
1Oct1991 | Hannah Lapp | 0 comments | ContinuedHome Schooling: A Personal Experience
Hannah Lapp is a dairy farmer and writer in Cassadaga, New York. “Where did you get your education?” or “Which college do you attend?” are questions I find harder to answer than most people do. Education has meant much more to me than mere academic study. My own formal education, and that of most of [...]
1Apr1991 | Hannah Lapp | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: THE FARM FIASCO by James Bovard
ICS Press, 243 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 • 1989 • 356 pages • $18.95 cloth Beyond the traditionally romantic perception of American farming lies the reality of our inept Federal farm policy—the bureaucratic quagmire so disgusting that few people dare face it, much less get in and explore it. It’s easier just to [...]
1Sep1990 | Hannah Lapp | 0 comments | ContinuedBuilding a Barn
Hannah Lapp is a dairy farmer and writer in Cassadaga, New York. This article is excerpted from a book she is writing about her family and their experiences as farmers and farm workers. One day early in 1974, Dad said, “Let’s build a new barn and milk 80 cows!” And not one of us offered [...]
1May1990 | Hannah Lapp | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Grapes of Opportunity
Hannah, Lapp is a dairy farmer and writer in Cassadaga, New York., This article is excerpted from a book she is writing about her family and their experiences as farmers and farm workers. “We are go-o-oing down the A-arkansas River Bottom La-ands!” chanted four young girls standing up behind the cab of a ‘59 pickup [...]
1Mar1990 | Hannah Lapp | 1 comment | Continued-
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