Stories tagged “education”
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Fear and Loathing in the Classroom
The American flag in Ms. Margaret Kellar’s office was much larger than required. It spanned nearly the entire wall behind her overstuffed chair, looming over the monstrous desk like giant red-and-white-striped prison bars. She decorated so that a...
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My Happy Place
My happy place has high expectations, and it isn’t everyone’s favorite place to be. Nevertheless, it is a source of great comfort and motivation for me. It is a school. I can see the chalkboard. I can smell the pencil shavings. I fill my brain w...
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Peek A Boo to Catholic School
Technology walks us through some very odd adventures, at times. This is what Ms. Petit Mort learned when she was using a certain internet search engine to find an obscure calculus tutoring book this morning. Within her search, she came across a name sh...
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Amos Thibodeau's Show and Tell
Amos Thibodeau Jr. was the first boy in his family to go to the public school in 50 years. His daddy, Amos Sr. had been schooled in the bayou way: fishing, hunting, growing crops. Amos Sr. always said, “Our land is all we need. What more can a man as...
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Education
Deiniol Trevithick Evans took a step back and admired his work. The floor of his accommodation was covered in blueprints, plans and scribbling. He had know comming to this University to become an engineer would be worth it. He had only been able to aff...
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Christmas Lights (Paranoid Android)
Color seeped from the pitch black sky, as the frail figure on the path tightened her grip on her plastic bags. A wind whispered behind, brushing trees. Nothing but darkness now. Her breath stuck in her chest. The old lady stopped. Back in the slums, sh...
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A Learning Experience
He frantically scanned the room for a drawer, a cupboard, anything that could hide his apparatus-to-be. The inspector called again. “Oy! Don’t make us knock your door down! Devil knows you couldn’t pay for the damages!” “D...