March 2012
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“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know...”
– James 3:1
Ironically, by wholesome, Christian republicans.
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Mother who stole son's education gets 12 years in... →
Authorities allege she enrolled her son in kindergarten in Norwalk using a babysitter’s address when he should have attended Bridgeport schools, where her last permanent address was.
February 2012
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Tennessee Bill: Penalize teachers, lobbyists for... →
Teachers and lobbyists who default on student loans could lose the right to practice their professions…
House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh, D-Ripley, said the bill sends the wrong message to teachers already facing ample problems. It means, he said, “You would be able to take a teacher out of a classroom because he or she, because of tough times, has become delinquent on a student...
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I WANT TO GO TO THERE. →
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AN OPEN LETTER TO WILLIAM D. FORD FEDERAL DIRECT... →
As with the prior iteration of your site, I would forget my four-digit pin as often as I would forget to conduct a breast self-exam. Thus, I appreciate that your site now allows a password that is not government-issued.
I noticed, however, that your site now offers an array of new password hint questions. NAME OF YOUR FIRST PET is no longer a menu item, so I elected to check the box next...
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lines to use on an English grad student →
so dorky. but I couldn’t resist.
Princess Bride / First Year Composition →
themissourireview:
via McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:
LINES FROM THE PRINCESS BRIDE THAT DOUBLE AS COMMENTS ON FRESHMAN COMPOSITION PAPERS.
BY JENNIFER SIMONSON
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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“At a time like this that’s all you can think to…
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The Worst Things Said On Fox News | The Huffington... →
stfuconservatives:
reallyfoxnews:
The 10 worst Fox News moments, the video version.
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Stephen Colbert inks children's book deal ---> →
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'Don't Say Gay' Bill Flies Out of House... →
Sen. Stacey Campfield’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill made it out of a House subcommittee today, banning discussion of all but “natural human reproduction science” before the ninth grade in public schools.
Before the House education subcommittee acted, chairman Joey Hensley scored bonus points by admonishing all Tennessee parents not to let their children watch “Modern Family” on television because they...
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Santorum Questions Education System; Criticizes... →
For the first 150 years, most presidents home-schooled their children at the White House, he said. “Where did they come up that public education and bigger education bureaucracies was the rule in America? Parents educated their children, because it’s their responsibility to educate their children.”
A spokesman for Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign, Ben LaBolt, said that while the administration...
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“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
– Robert Heinlein
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Einstein (via meiaro) 