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Schools and Rules II: Challenging Rules
This is another post in a series. We’re thinking about how authority and rules (and challenges to those rules) should play out in a Grace-based classroom. Earlier posts are right before this one if you want to catch up. 2. If you refuse to allow criticism or challenge within your classroom/school, you’re painting a huge…
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Schools and Rules I: Obedience
Yesterday I mentioned the case of the kid in Vermont who was suspended for the remainder of the year by his Christian school because of his essay challenging the school’s rules for behavior and dress code. I used that as a jumping off point to think about how we should handle challenges to authority within…
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Schools and Rules: Intro
A few weeks ago, a junior at a independent Baptist Christian high school in Vermont was suspended for the remainder of the school year because of an essay. His paper (which avoided topics on the teacher’s “banned topics” list) challenged the school’s dress code rules as ineffective and inconsistent. Citing a yearlong attitude of “rebellion,” the…
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Review: The Grey (2012)
I nearly had to arm-wrestle Coart into this movie, and he didn’t like it. But I really appreciated Liam Neeson’s The Grey. Since I teach (did teach) American Lit, I’ve always been fascinated by the social and cultural forces that led to the development of Naturalism (or Determinism) in American culture. Jack London and Stephen Crane…
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Lenten Vows
I didn’t grow up with Lent. Actually, being from Western Pennsylvania where a full 50% of all residents are Catholic and an imposing stone Catholic church dots many of the corners in my small hometown, I can’t imagine my formerly-Catholic-later-evangelical-independent-Bible-Church father smiling on any such observance. He wasn’t a real big fan of the religious identity attached to him by…
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