Posts Tagged ‘high school’
High school students wrote and produced raps based upon one of my books
Students at Gavit High School in Hammond, Indiana read Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend in English class, and a group of them wrote and produced raps about the book. I’ve never been a huge fan of of rap, but these two songs are definitely an exception: http://www.smule.com/p/282065249_78027425 http://www.smule.com/p/282065249_78028372
Read MoreMy annual plea to the girls in my fifth grade class: Maintain your advantage over the boys. Rule the world.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton pledged to work to get all the female Democratic candidates on the ballot elected in November. “I can’t think of a better way to make the House work again than electing every woman on the ballot,” Clinton told the Democratic Women’s Leadership Forum. “There are ten women running for the Senate,…
Read MoreI refuse to give the high school jerks a free pass, regardless of conventional wisdom
Logic says that we shouldn’t continue to blame a person for being a jerk in high school because it was high school. Teenagers are not fully developed human beings, peer pressure can be incredibly intense and people often change a great deal in the years following high school. But here’s the thing: Many people chose…
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