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Introduction: Aleks pointed me to some posts on Gary Rubenstein’s blog, where I found this disheartening description of the teaching at a local high school. None of this is a surprise, but Rubenstein writes it vividly, and it’s interesting to see how bad things can be at school, on a day-by-day basis.


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