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Blog Entries by Steve Nelson from 11/2011

Teacher Fired for "Joking": That's No Joke

| Posted 11.02.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: First Amendment, Free Speech Rights of Teachers, Political Correctness, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Huffington Post News

We should all be politically correct if it means using language that is inoffensive and treating each other with empathy. Just because one has the Constitutional right to be offensive, one needn't exercise that right.

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There Are No "Top Tier" Colleges, Schools (or Kids!)

| Posted 11.29.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Sat Scores, College Placement, College Admissions, Top-Tier-Schools, Ivy League, Selective Colleges, Young Women's Leadership School, Meritocracy, Huffington Post News

You high school seniors, applying to or waiting to hear from colleges, ignore all the nonsense about top tier schools. And especially ignore the ridiculous notion that your SAT score or grade point average defines who you are.

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