Tag: education
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And then I yawned and moved on…
Let’s see. Did any Atlanta schools rank in Newsweek’s list of the top 1500 public high schools in the U.S. I see one. Just one. North Atlanta High School came in at 865th and I see Dekalb School of the Arts came in at 307th. Plus a few from suburban/satellite areas. North Atlanta High is…
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What were they drinking?
After Virginia Tech, when I said I needed to teach H.o.p. how to duck and run, I certainly didn’t have anything like this in mind. Via Raw Story… Faculty fakes gunman attack on crying 6th graders RAW STORY Published: Monday May 14, 2007 A teacher and assistant principal at a Tennessee elementary school staged a…
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Oops…thar she blows!
Here I have in my Netflix-borrowing hands a DVD of “Cat Women of the Moon”, which far surpasses any expectations I had for it, and I’d planned to blog my giddy, glorious wonder of this film on Friday. But then I opened up the Bloglines and what met my eyes but Pharyngula’s “Demand higher standards…
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Why can I never remember Karl Rove’s face?
I never can remember Karl Rove’s face. Rumsfeld is easy. When I think Rumsfeld I think Wes Craven’s “Hellraiser”. Rumsfeld has always, always been “Hellraiser” to me. But Rove? Nothing. A suit with a zero for a head. Continuing. My son can draw like crazy. This is not one of his drawings-drawings. This is my…
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Ask Sally, Dick or Jane the value of their privacy and what personal boundaries mean
Talkleft posts a story on inmates, who were stripped and left naked, some for days, winning a lawsuit against the Saginaw County Jail in Michigan. One was 36 year-old Linda Rose who, arrested for drunk driving, was stripped and left to crouch before a surveillance camera for several hours in a jail cell. The lawsuit…
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Learning how to honor the truth by being taught how G. W. never told a lie
First off. Despite the fact I was over at Stone Bridge lamenting the fact I used to love movies and how I hate Hollywood movies and how most have no substance, I got all way too excited when I came upon Arvin Hill’s Carnival of Horrors and his profile giving him as liking “Shakes the…
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We recognize Margaret Spellings is a sensitive issue and we wanted to make sure that parents had an opportunity to introduce this subject to their children in their own time
Settle down to watch “George Shrinks” on WPBA with H.o.p. and there it is, a brand new commercial, swear it is (though I could be wrong) which gets down to business with big white script on the screen informing 84% of you see Public Broadcasting as a Safe Haven for your child. They may as…