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Dumb school officials make dumb decision

By Matthew Dicks | June 25, 2017 |

I can’t stand stupidity. This is stupidity. The senior class President in Exeter, PA is delivering a speech at commencement. He decides to go off-script and criticize the school for the limited role that the student council makes in decision making. He does not swear. He does not insult anyone specifically. He doesn’t even raise…

This video encompasses so many of my fears for my students

By Matthew Dicks | September 19, 2015 |

I watch this video from the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and it encapsulates so many of my fears for my students. I’m afraid that they are growing up in a world with an African American President and legalized same sex marriage (two things I never thought I would see in my lifetime), and yet sexist, stupid, degrading…