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	<description>Reevaluating education</description>
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		<title>All Hail the Rumor Weed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gossip, Rumors, those evil little ideas that get passed around&#8230; and in schools they are even more treacherous than normal. About a month ago, I had a student come up to my desk during worktime. &#8220;I have a question to ask you&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Okay, what is it?&#8221; &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s something I heard, and I knew you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/06/22/all-hail-the-rumor-weed/</link>
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		<title>Blogger&#8217;s Note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has been reading this will notice the gap in time and blog posts.  A lot has happened in the past two months&#8230; In January, the parents, students, and staff of my school found out that we basically had no money to operate.  After an agonizing meeting, it was decided that we would try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/06/22/bloggers-note/</link>
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		<title>A D-, an A+, Difference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grades for the third quarter were due today&#8230; I must say this, I hate letter grades! No I love them!  No I hate them!  I cannot decide! I get like this at the end of every quarter.  I have a love/hate relationship with our letter grade system.  At times I think it&#8217;s an accurate representation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/03/22/a-d-an-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>Is My Club Beating Me to Death?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to my contract, I am a high school social studies teacher responsible for teaching those subjects (World History, U.S. History, Psychology, Sociology, Government, and Economics) and for sponsoring the book club.  Missing from that contract is all the other things I do on a weekly basis.  I am the class of 2011 sponsor, an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/03/22/is-my-club-beating-me-to-death/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;But That&#8217;s Not on the Study Guide&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time we review for tests I hear the title phrase.  Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.  I am sure other teachers have the same problems with reviewing and tests.   My general philosophy about tests is that they should be an assessment of the high/important points from the chapter.  I try to make my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/03/02/but-thats-not-on-the-study-guide/</link>
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		<title>Sex and the Single Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the following summarized conversation took place: &#8220;Name three of the most deviant things you can think of.&#8221; Multiple students: &#8220;Murder, incest, profanity..&#8221; One particular student &#8220;pooping on flowers, cursing at your grandma, and having sex with a teacher.&#8221; To which I stupidly replied: &#8220;Now that&#8217;s interesting, are we talking about a teacher and current student, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/02/23/sex-and-the-single-teacher/</link>
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		<title>Fire Hazards are Fun!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all remember those the monthly fire drills, lectures from firemen about stopping, dropping, and rolling, and family escape plans.  I teach about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (a tragedy of history) and the importance of building codes and fire regulations.    And then sometimes I want to just throw the regulations out the window because everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/02/23/fire-hazards-are-fun/</link>
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		<title>The IPOD Conundrum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my students dearly, but sometimes I have to ask them Really???  Our school, like many I have seen or heard about, has a no tolerance policy about electronic devices, specifically IPODs and cell phones.  I love the rule.  Students are here for school not to text to their friends or listen to music.  Oh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/02/23/the-ipod-conundrum/</link>
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		<title>Let out the inner Geek!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always thought of myself as a geek, a nerd, a dork, and my students routinely confirm this fact.  So what?   I am proud to identify as a history, psychology, sociology, economic, government, philosophy, and theatre geek! And as a directive to all teachers out there: Let out the inner geek!   Education would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/02/22/let-out-the-inner-geek/</link>
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		<title>The Donkey vs. The  Elephant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find myself dodging the question of political affiliation many times in class and today was no exception.  Students ask me either straight out or by beating around the bush &#8220;Are you a Democrat or Republican?&#8221;   How do I answer?  or do I? I think all teachers (at least teachers of high school social studies) run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newathenian.com/2010/01/27/the-donkey-vs-the-elephant/</link>
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