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Received via email tonight (per­sonal data changed to pro­tect the student’s iden­tity): hello pro­fes­sor this is ********** in your ********** class, accord­ing to a friend in the class that you gave back the exam 2 grades in class which i asked you for it before i left the class on mon­day, you told me you didnt have […]

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The Larry Scott class offered through South­ern Flames last week­end was, to me, many things: A huge edu­ca­tion. Larry demon­strated many tricks and tech­niques that I had never before seen, and explained some things I had seen before in a new way so that I finally “got it.” I sort of under­stood the idea behind linear […]

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In the last issue of the alumni mag­a­zine from Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­sity, where I did my grad­u­ate work, I found an entry in the “In Mem­ory” col­umn that stunned me. Tanya was my clos­est friend in grad­u­ate school. She was sev­eral years younger than I and an under­grad­u­ate, but it didn’t mat­ter — all of […]

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If you didn’t see 2020 last Fri­day night, with John Stossel’s report on “Stu­pid in Amer­ica,” find a way to see it on a rerun, find some­one who taped it and bor­row the tape, get a tape from ABC, what­ever. It is a must-​see for any­one involved with the K-​12 pub­lic edu­ca­tion sys­tem as a […]

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I hate to give this for­mer stu­dent any more time, or any more sense of his/​her own self-​importance, but this really is just too absurd not to share. I’m post­ing the whole com­ment just so you can get the full fla­vor, and decide for your­self what it says about this stu­dent… Jeez!!! She is still teaching? […]

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