It is foolish for schools to waste scarce resources buying expensive technological products that will be obsolete upon purchase, when a textbook can be used for up to 10 years.
I could go on about why my daughter's photo should not be made available for acts of worship, or why my P.T.A. donations should not be used to supply furniture for a religious group that thinks I am bound for hell, or why in a city blessed with an uncountable number of faiths it's foolish to get schools tangled up in religion.
In school districts foolish enough to head down this path, the students will likely emerge with a shakier understanding of science.
For no matter how hard he tried to wriggle out of the foolish commitment to private school, my mother wouldn't allow it.
To continue throwing money at schools is foolish.
Larry argued that gun-free zones, like elementary schools, were foolish, comparing them to his own, fictional notion of "zombie-free zones".
Keeping it as a 'reach' school is just foolish.
I used to think it was foolish to be promoting – in school – a means of social networking that limits the number of characters one can use.
Furthermore, the school has been foolish enough to involve me in the learning process, blithely assuming that we're all on the same side.
My friend Doug Hughes, who directs both Shakespearean and contemporary plays, put it best when I asked him whether setting one of Shakespeare's tragedies in an American high school was a foolish notion.
Richard H. Brodhead, a former English professor and dean at Yale who was named Duke's president in 2004, recently said he found it "foolish" and "disheartening" when high school students listed the men's basketball team as the primary reason they applied to Duke.
