watching movies in school is a terrible way to experience them. Everything becomes boring when you're going to be tested on it.

You know, it's weird, but every post in this thread misinterprets the post above it. I wonder if I did that too.

I propose Mandatory Metallica as the answer to our young people's problems.

I liked Lord of the Flies when I read it in 7th grade, but something tells me that it wouldn't do as much for me now that I've had a lot more experience with literature.

It's Fordham University, isn't it? These guys just look like Fordham material.

He's 13. That's the douchebag age. You were a douchebag at 13. So was I. There's no getting around it.

Jefferson nailed it. We can all go home.

Neil Young and Neil Diamond are more like the Bill Walton and Bill Russel of music. I know this raises the question of who the Bill Bradley of music is, but I'm going to leave that for another day.

Oh, and Mr. Plow.
It looks like a couple of people got there already. But still, needs to be said.

I will make the case for season 4

It's a really bad book for the curriculum. It has no real value as literature, and the only people who think it does are Rand cultists. Atlast Shrugged, in particular, is like a primer on how NOT to write a book. The comically absurd plot presented with an absolutely straight face, the epic 30-page rants that make…

I see I'm not the only one who thought "People's History" was sophomoric. I'm all for looking at history through a different perspective, but if anything, People's History is a more simplistic "good guys vs. bad guys" version of history than the one you learn in 8th grade.

Yea OTP, not even the Dolphins would run that play.

You can't have rickets if you wanna stick it.

Any teacher who makes their kid slog through Ayn Rand needs to have their certificate revoked.

Borges is too much for high school students. A collection of his stories is great for the bathroom, though, because it can blow your mind in the time it takes to drop a deuce.

Yeah, angryman up there is just venting some kind of rage at film studies. Maybe his girlfriend ran off with a film professor or something.

nah fuck that. showing teenagers classic films just gives them something to be snotty about on the internet

Yeah' I'm sure i bitched about hs all the time, but in retrospect it was just fine. I might feel differently if I had left as a virgin, buth thankfully little mis [name withheld] decided I was a good enough pit stop on the way to becoming a lesbian. I should probably be more self conscious about that, but I prefer…

you know josh, i never used to think the stories in penthouse were true either
that is, until it happened to me.