July 19,  2024 By Joseph Batory During my years as Upper Darby Superintendent of Schools )1984-1999),  I  collected a great many memories that I cherish to this day. And here is just one more magical one which occurred in the midst of great adversity, During the 1990’s, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began to annually under […]

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By Joseph Batory In the 1600’s in France, education was something for the rich alone.  For those born into poverty or from working class backgrounds, it was a certainty that these children would never receive an education. But in the late 17th century, a Catholic priest, Jean Baptiste de La Salle, began doing the unthinkable.  […]

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By Joseph Batory The Constitution of the United States has long been distorted by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to convince millions of its naive followers that the USA’s long list of mass murders have nothing to do with the USA’s  incredibly lax gun control regulations. The NRA’s absurd mythology is that the Framers of […]

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By Joseph Batory During my years as Upper Darby Superintendent of Schools )1984-1999),  I collected a great many memories that I cherish to this day. And here is a very delightful one. I had met and become familiar with two Baptist ministers in Drexel Hill, PA (where my wife and I lived)  who happened to […]

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By Joseph Batory (Published in the Center City Concerned Citizens Review, June 2024, Philadelphia, PA) The efforts by national organizations and media outlets  to issue annual lists of “the best high schools in the USA ” are naive at best. Sadly, such evaluations are essentially treating  all schools as if they were  factories with uniform […]

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By Joseph Batory Audrey Hepburn owns a gigantic legacy among Hollywood actresses.  Her accomplishments included what few in her profession have ever achieved: an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. And she always “turned heads” with her special kind of beauty and gracefulness. Many of Audrey’s leading film roles were classics! If you […]

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From the Notebook of Joseph Batory Here is a reality check for the many bigots and racists that surround us!  Our world is human…it is not one color or one ethnic group or one religion. So, the biases and prejudices and discrimination which persist among too many are absurd! Aside from that, the world is […]

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By Joseph Batory George Orwell’s best-selling novel, 1984, created a terrifying picture of a dystopian era with incessant propaganda dominating a nation’s citizenry dictating that truth is fiction, that observed reality is fantasy, that documented news reports are fake, and scientific evidence is to be ignored. Sounds familiar here today!!! The Environment: One prime Orwellian […]

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By Joseph Batory The most recent rulings by the United States Supreme Court sadly reflect an ideological majority of justices parroting right wing politics and vested and corporate interests.  This Supreme Court majority  has become little more than six obedient lemmings driving  the court off the rails. To begin, the misguided seditionists and their anointed […]

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