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First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards. – Mark Twain

Remembering

Posted on September 1, 2004 by James Landrith

Wil Wheaton on the age-old question of what to do when you run into your former nemesis: I’ve often wondered . . . if I ever ran into one of […]

Edumacating Young Minds

Posted on June 23, 2004 by James Landrith

Dude, part of this website is a reading assignment for a course on "U.S. Military History from 1775 to the Present" at the University of Northern Colorado. More specifically, its […]

Coercive Patriotism

Posted on March 26, 2004 by James Landrith

Garry Reed sums up my basic problem with the Pledge of Allegiance here: Extracting a government loyalty oath from public school children is legalized extortion. Public schools are institutions of […]

Reading, Writing and that Other Stuff

Posted on February 11, 2004 by James Landrith

Dean Esmay has an interesting, if not cynical, posting on his pursuit of a college education. In December 2003, as I previously mentioned, I returned to school to fill in […]

Distractions

Posted on January 15, 2004 by James Landrith

Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz. Time wasting quiz courtesy of The Republic of T.

School Daze

Posted on December 9, 2003 by James Landrith

An exercise similar to the Friday Five: Name of your High School: Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School. Mascot: Chiefs Graduating Class: 1988 Were you in a clique? (Who did you hang […]

Back to School

Posted on November 24, 2003 by James Landrith

I feel pretty damn good today. I've re-enrolled in school recently. Classes start on December 1st at the American Military University. I've just turned in my first assignment and couldn't […]

Reading, Writing and That Rithmatic Stuff

Posted on October 8, 2003 by James Landrith

A Peoria Pundit gets a new job and puts more learning in his head: I got the job … … and I start Monday. It’s a tech support job and […]

Change of Course

Posted on October 6, 2003 by James Landrith

Ron Bronson, Jr. on Why College, revisited: …I realize now that what I supposed to build is far greater than the confines of these walls or this city with these […]

Educratic Nanny State

Posted on July 10, 2003 by James Landrith

Susan Saulny with Abby Goodnough of The New York Times on Suit Says School Ordered Girls Tested for Diseases After Party: The "hooky party," which attracted about a dozen students […]

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