Negative Space: high school
- The child sex of the anointed
- There’s nothing so uncommon as common sense in DC, and the Washington Post epitomizes the nonsensical vision of the anointed with Betsy Karasik’s article proposing legalizing sex between high school teachers and high school students “absent extenuating circumstances”.
- How best to avoid high school
- Paul Graham writes about how best to avoid wasting four years of your life on high school.
- Old, Unused Term Papers and Reports
- Excuse me? You mean even my stupid old high school term papers are ‘in your face’? That’s the case in Texas as of September 1, 1997: the law makes me a criminal if I “should reasonably have known that a person intends to use them to satisfy an academic requirement”. Come on, somebody out there is going to be stupid enough to try and pass one of my mediocre papers off as their own. I’ve been working for years to convince people to put their studies, reports, and papers on-line and share their data. Is that now a subversive act? Heads up, Texas. Maybe it ought to be illegal to prepare, pass, or encourage laws when the person knows, or should reasonably have known, that the law in question is silly as hell.
- The ongoing rise of school choice
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You say choice of high schools doesn’t work? Then why has the US been doing more and more of it lately? We just call those high schools “colleges”.
- Teaching kids to fail
- Are schools designed to teach kids to fail?
More Information
- Unschool Yourself
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“I’ve long been really upset at our schooling methods. Not because they are startlingly ineffective (they are) or because they create a tendency to be conformist to immediate surroundings (they do) but because they create humans with deformed guidance systems.”
- Motivation: Truth
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“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
