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The Salvaging of Sanity

You drive into the high school parking lot, your wipers slashing at the heavy rain. It’s the first day of spring and students run from their cars and the school buses, into the dry halls of the high school. You’re heading for the faculty lot when you see them. At the far end of the student lot, the rear doors of a beat old white van are half open. The two students stand just inside them doing something. Standing in the rain in black raincoats, both of them. James half a foot shorter...

Posted by ERUDIO on Jan 16th, 2012

Never Say Never — Ge...

“One year I had a student with a near-perfect SAT score and straight A’s. I’d originally put him in the submitted pile, but then we had to reduce the list. I reread his essays and frankly, they were just a little more boring than the other kids. So I cut him. Boring was the only justification that I needed and he was out.” — College Admissions Officer, anon. You know… you know...

Posted by ERUDIO on Jan 9th, 2012

Exceptional Teachers pt2 &...

One brilliant kid grows up and cures AIDS. Another brilliant kid grows up and becomes the Unabomber. Why? You know why. You teach standard mainstream fourth grade. And your favorite student comes in without the homework again. “Actually,” he says, “I forgot. Really, I should be punished.” Prempting you. You realize that his shirt is on inside-out. The other kids...

Posted by ERUDIO on Jan 2nd, 2012

Fighting Hell on Earth ...

FIRST-IN UNITS REPORT HEAVY FIRE CONDITIONS. POOR WATER SUPPLY AND FAST FIRE. SINGLE HOME. INHABITANTS TRAPPED, POSSIBLE CHILDREN. ALL UNITS RESPOND! You don’t feel like a hero. It’s what you do. Going into Hell is part of the job. You’ve been fighting fires for a couple of years now, but nothing like this. This fire was the kind the older firemen sometimes talk about, the...

Posted by ERUDIO on Jun 13th, 2011

Exceptional Teachers for E...

This is your world. Exceptional students. The disabled and the gifted. You were always drawn to that side, the disabled kids. There are so many more of them than the gifted. Their needs seem so desperate, their gratitude so overwhelming. You’d always wanted to teach. You’d grown up working at a summer camp for kids with disabilities. Maybe you yourself were a gifted kid, and hardly...

Posted by ERUDIO on May 30th, 2011

Coaching the Dream...

Your dream— high school star, college starter, NFL draft. Six years ago on a snow-blown college football field, halfway into that dream, you used your stunning speed in a tight end pattern, cutting hard, and WHAM! You took a blindside hit that felt like you’d stepped in front of a bus. White light filled your world, and when you tried to stand up, your right leg folded under you. ...

Posted by ERUDIO on May 23rd, 2011

Other People’s Secre...

YOU’VE SEEN HIS FACE ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE, THIS BILLIONAIRE CEO, who says, “A hundred billion dollars are at stake. There has to be a bug in the conference room. We’re fighting a hostile takeover, and they made some sketchy inside moves that hurt us. Somehow they scored key information. Every one of us in that room has a lot to lose. It couldn’t be one of us. ...

Posted by ERUDIO on May 16th, 2011

The Language of Life or De...

“If the soldiers force their way inside my home, I must try to kill them.” The man on his knees says this desperately. He is literally begging, explaining the price of honor. He speaks a language you understand. But only you. The rest of the squad hears only his stress. He talks so fast that you miss a word now and then. It’s like listening to HipHop backward. But you get...

Posted by ERUDIO on May 9th, 2011

Capitalism – The Num...

A degree in capitalism? What in the world would that be? And why do so many students want one? Is it the study of greed, or of service? Buying low and selling high? Of leading, of producing profits? Okay, you guessed it. We’re talking about Business— literally, the study of how to make capitalism work. Business is the number one field of study among ALL undergraduates. Maybe you...

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