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The harm in arming educators

Teachers aren’t supposed to take life

There was another school shooting recently, near Atlanta, and this one was relatively benign. The gunman walked into an elementary school, told employees to call the police, fired five or six rounds from his assault rifle, and surrendered. Yawn. It’s a hiccup in the news cycle. Of course, the NRA repeatedly assures us, with their […]

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Shades of Dorothy

Is New Girl an early 21st Century Wizard of Oz?

This is the kind of thing history teachers think of when they can’t go back to sleep in the middle of the night. New Girl, I’m reasonably sure, is a kind of Wizard of Oz for the Millennial Generation. Zooey Deschanel is less Judy Garland and more Audrey Hepburn on runaway roller skates, but I […]

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