Yeah, I'm sure there was an element of "eh, no first class tickets, fuck it, doesn't matter. Can I request bulkhead though?" Now what will be great is if we hear that he did something like give up his first class seat for a little old lady or something.

It is at minimum a 10 year old assignment. We did it in high school and I am sure that my teacher picked it up at some gifted and talented conference (she prided herself on going to those things).

There are a great many ways to teach students about the validity of sources without asking them to defend the existence of a well known historical event. For example, in 8th grade, we also did a Holocaust unit (in English, not history, oddly) and were given research papers prior to going to the Holocaust Museum on our…

So- way back in 2004, when I was in high school, we had to do the same project, only in presentation rather than a paper. When I brought up the "umm, wtf?" question, the teacher (whom I pretty much loathed at this point anyway and the feeling was mutual) spewed some bullshit about critical thinking and reputable…

Not to mention that "summers off" is a total joke. Each of my parents had something school related that took up most of the summer. Either prep work for the next year (like hiring new staff and getting supplies) or teaching summer classes/extra curriculars/camps or continuing education stuff. State teaching…

My stepdad worked in the roughest school of any of my parents, but because of what he taught, he was in a kind of isolated wing of the building and never had a damn clue about anything that was going on. They went into lockdown once and it was on the news. He had no idea until no one showed up for his next class. His…

They weren't when I was in high school (we had a large number one year in middle school though). I actually don't think we had any bomb threats, although we did go into lockdown a handful of times because of weapons in the school. We weren't a huge school, but not small either, and were in a small city that was…

Agreed. I grew up in 2 houses of public school teachers (divorced and remarried parents, all of whom teach) and for inner city districts. Teaching is a bitch. It is hard and a lot of people are not cut out for it. But you know what my parents did when things got so so rough that they felt like they were going to snap?…

Agreed. I think Art is actually fairly interesting and want to see more of his interactions with Sarah and/or other clones (mostly Allison, everyone should interact with that crazy pants, she's wonderful). The thing is, I find all of these male characters, except Felix, boring outside of their interactions with Clone…

Me too. Dear people who live where this movie is showing- please go see it so that it will show near me.

Aside from the fact that no one did a promprosal at our school, it was pretty similar. Long term couples went, friends went, some of us went with a male friend because his coloring looked good with my dress (yup, that was the conversation we had, he agreed with the idea because he was vain as shit). We went in big…

That's super true. The food was pretty cheap and we found some inexpensive hotels. We also packed our lunches to go into the park, so that seemed to help matters.

I'm a bit pleased that my alma mater isn't here, nor is the school that I am applying for. I'm not surprised my alma mater isn't there, not because I know anything about how they handle sexual assault (literally in the 5 years I was there, I never heard anything, which probably has a lot to do with my very limited…

I think there's less lying and more "eh, no one knows where Skokie is anyway" for most people. I did go to school in Indiana where a lot of people claimed to be from Chicago when they were just from northwest Indiana. It was annoying.

Yeah, we drove from Chicago over several days. Stopped for a few days around the Badlands and then on the way home did 3 days back (17 hour day to Fargo, 5 hours to my in-laws place in southern Minnesota, and then 6 hours to Chicago, so that could have been 2 days). I know the Amtrack goes there, but yeah, it's…

They started that campaign again this year. Right before we moved, big Montana poster went up on Halsted. I just stared at it and thought, awww, mountains. We went to Glacier last year and it is phenomenal. Montana is totally worth a vacation.

Or- they move there, claim they're from there, and then leave. Or they're from "Chicago" which means they're actually from Schaumburg or Skokie.

As someone who just left the state of Illinois, why yes, all of this makes sense. Lived in Chicago too, so while downstate Illinois might be ok, no jobs there for us. Actually, no jobs in Chicago for me either, which is another reason we left.

I know blond adults are rarer because a lot of people who were blond as kids get darker as they age. My red headed sister in law gets the same question for the same reason. That being said, it's not like natural blonds are total unicorns. I also live in whitey mcwhiterson ville full of people of Scandinavian decent so…

Uggh, my brother and I have gotten that too, but our eyes are a weird green/gold/blue color that no one makes as contacts. I have bad vision so wear clear contacts to see and he just has reading glasses. I don't understand why people just assume eye colors aren't real.