Author: Paul White

Paul D. White is a Reno resident and career educator whose program "Gangsters-to-Gardeners" won state and national awards. A two-time Educator-of-the-Year, he is the co-author of White's Rules - Saving Our Youth, One Kid at a Time (Random House) and The Stronghold School Student Handbook. He has written for The Washington Post, LA Daily News, LA Times, Education Week, The Ventura County Citizens Journal, Ventura County Star, Reno Gazette Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor.

OPINION: Aligning with “Christmas Story” Values Would Improve Washoe County’s Defective Schools

December 19, 2025 12:00 pmDecember 29, 2025 8:46 am

The story of Mary and Joseph’s trip to Bethlehem and Jesus’ birth, contain a timeless message for everyone, including the Washoe County School District. The underlying values in the Nativity story have an application that far exceeds their traditional one-day commemoration on December 25. All WCSD employees need to consider the...

OPINION: DEFUND Washoe County’s “Specialty Courts.” Address the Real Problem.

November 23, 2025 6:00 amNovember 22, 2025 8:04 pm

The 14th Amendment’s requirement for equal treatment under the law – for everyone, no longer exists in Nevada. That Constitutional provision has been subverted for years by what are known as “Specialty Courts.” Washoe County is a typical example. Historically, it had only two basic types of courts: · District...

OPINION: “Auditing Reno 911”: Fighting 1st & 14th Amendment Infringement and Government Corruption with a Camera

November 10, 2025 6:00 amNovember 13, 2025 1:06 am

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I SHOULD do, and WILL do, so help me God. (Edward Everett Hale) Last week in Reno’s U.S. District (Federal) Court, I witnessed the most judicially unprofessional and biased...

OPINION: Pornographic Books & Curriculum: The “Whited Sepulchres” of Washoe County Public Schools.

November 1, 2025 6:00 amNovember 23, 2025 2:51 am

Warning: Adult Content “Whited Sepulchres” is an ancient biblical simile used over 2,000 years ago by Jesus Christ. The term derives from an ancient practice of the priests that was used to intentionally mislead their communities. Tombs, also known as “sepulchres,” were considered unclean. They were whitewashed on the outside...

OPINION: If Selection Process for New County Manager Is A Done Deal – That’s Not Good

October 25, 2025 6:00 amNovember 22, 2025 4:51 am

Washoe County Commissioners will be announcing a high-impact decision in the next few days regarding who the county’s next County Manager will be. The County recently announced the 4 finalists. • Two of them are out-of-state administrators in counties with much smaller populations than Washoe’s. • One of the finalists...

OPINION: I Attended Reno’s “No Kings” Rally. Read the Truth, and Sleep Well Tonight.

October 19, 2025 6:00 amOctober 20, 2025 11:35 am

I went to the “No Kings” protest rally in downtown Reno Saturday morning. Reno’s local media promoted it nonstop for the past two weeks. Obviously, they thought it was going to be the biggest story of the year (much bigger than the Israel/Hamas peace treaty). I felt I had to...

OPINION: Parents Who Keep Children in WCSD Schools: You Don’t Give a Damn About Them.

October 13, 2025 12:15 pmNovember 15, 2025 7:09 am

by Paul D. White It’s a normal thing for parents to tell their children, “I love you more than anything else in the world.” But if you’re one of the 60,000 parents who ignore the dangerous and depraved truth about Washoe County Schools, and still send your children there, you...

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