The Land of Cotton

NCAA Seedings...

2008-02-21T16:04:07Z

Of course there is still some basketball to be played before tournament time, but I took my list of 65 and broke them down into seeds if the tournament were to start today. Of course, there will be some flip-flopping and shifting, but what's the ...

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It's almost time...

2008-02-19T21:32:45Z

March Madness is on the horizon, and in honor of this sacred tradition, I will, in addition to already taking the first Thursday and Friday of games off of school, offer my predictions for the field of 65. I won't try to make predictions of seeds...

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What am I to do?

2008-02-19T17:23:34Z

75% of my 5th period class is either on probation or has been at some point in their short life. From assault to car theft and just about everything in between, someone in that class has done it. How can a writing assignment or any other consequ...

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Crappy Parent of the Week, Vol. 4 (February 18-24, 2008)

2008-02-19T17:15:01Z

This month's crappy parent hits home for most of my readers as we visit the Bluff City. Memphis police have charged James Hawkins with first-degree murder in the death of his live-in girlfriend Charlene Gaither. Police claim that after murde...

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Crappy Parent of the Week, Vol 3 (January 14-20, 2008)

2008-01-15T15:49:25Z

After a four week hiatus for the holiday season, we come back with our first "Crappy Parent of the Week" Award for 2008. There were several nominees to choose from, as the holiday season really seems to bring out the whack-o child abusers, but th...

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Crappy Parent of the Week - Vol.2 (Dec.17-23, 2007)

2007-12-18T15:10:03Z

This week, we travel north up to the South Side of Chicago for our "Crappy Parent of the Week," where we find 24-year-old Lakeshia Murph behind bars for the death of her 2-year-old son, Brandon. According to the Chicago Tribune, Murph was fed up ...

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Crappy Parent of the Week - Vol. 1 (December 9-16, 2007)

2007-12-12T18:15:54Z

With so many stories of terrible parents, its not hard to figure out why so many of our youngsters are turning out the way they are. With that in mind, I will be highlighting great examples of terrible parenting starting this week. Our first win...

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In the Emphatic Words of Clark W. Griswold Jr., "Hallelujah, Holy ****!"

2007-09-26T14:47:40Z

At least somebody gets it... The following is an column originally printed in the March 7th edition of USA Today. For once, blame the student By Patrick Welsh Failure in the classroom is often tied to lack of funding, poor teachers or other ill...

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We Don't Need No Water, Let the Mother****** Burn! (or How to Avoid Burnout)

2007-07-11T18:15:32Z

Burnout is going to happen to some degree. Accept this now, and it will be a whole lot easier down the road. Its part of the experience of being a teacher. You'll get so sick of some of the crap that teachers deal with and you will just feel l...

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Required Summer Blog #2

2007-06-28T09:03:00Z

Summer school seems to be an overwhelming success for the one student in our classroom. She excels at just about everything that is given to her, and sometimes it makes us as teachers wonder how in the world she ended up in summer school. In parti...

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