February 27, 2010 – 10:54 am
From reddit comments:
People often think bullying is a result of kids being kids. It’s not. Its a direct result of placing them in the school system with its rules and authority apparatus. If you placed adults in an identical environment you would end up with bullying as well.
One of [...]
January 28, 2010 – 7:45 pm
My local newspaper ran an article about the disappearance of Home Economics classes from high school curriculums.
10 years ago it wasn’t cool to take a Home Economics class. I opted for that course instead of Calculus. Most students took Calculus, but surely after high school and going out on their own there must have been [...]
Writing
Remember writing papers and essays with word and page requirements? Did you try to beat the system by not contracting words (using “is not” instead of “isn’t” to increase your word count) or not getting to the point in your writing? Your essay would probably be about the same, but more readable had you written [...]