Back in the 1970s, Powers Catholic High School in Flint experimented with a new educational concept called Student-Teacher Assessment periods or STAs. The idea was to treat teenagers as adults and let them have one or two "open" periods per class every week where they could meet … [Read more...]
Heller Poll results: The skipper can stay
Dear. Mr. Ilitch and/or Al Avila, You should not fire Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, according to 53 percent of the people who took this week's Heller Poll, which sounds like a lot until you consider that the other 47 percent said he should go, especially if Jim Leyland … [Read more...]
Come Heller high water … the May 18th edition
Come Heller high water … Gov. Rick Snyder says he has “no memory” of deleting emails related to the Flint water crisis. What did you expect him to say – “Oh yeah, I deleted gobs of them, especially the really juicy ones”? C’mon. By the way, I have no memory of eating the … [Read more...]
Should he stay or should he go?
Detroit Tigers manager has been on the proverbial "hot seat" for weeks now, despite the fact no one remembers why a "hot seat" came to be synonymous with "at risk of being fired" in the first place. But you get the gist. Should the Bradman, in the words of the immortal … [Read more...]
Cursing the end of cursive?
Lately, I’ve been seeing these memes: “Please share if you believe schools should teach cursive.” I started to give it some serious thought. Learning cursive was torture for me. My B’s never looked like B’s and the humps of my M’s and N’s were always confused. Heaven forbid I … [Read more...]
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