Now, if you promise not to tell anybody, I will let you in on a little secret: I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school.
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When school let out there would be a month without school, and if I did not salvage the situation, I would not see them until school began again in the spring.
Give Kelly a big round of applause. (Applause.) I was saying backstage that when I was in high school, I could not have done that. (Laughter.) I would have muffed it up somehow.
In high school, I was not allowed to sign up for algebra nor in fact to take any science courses.
My company was an exhibitor at a sports trade show when I bumped into a former high school acquaintance that I had not seen in more than ten years.
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It saddens me that most measurement says education has not improved since I was in public school.
As the father of two children not yet in school, I spend a great deal of time thinking about what they will face when they finally do enter the public school system.
Every day, I mean, we have - not just the instructors in my school, but other city colleges of Chicago that - they feel that it's not restricted opportunity.
It is certainly not the way I learned it when I studied exchange rates in school.
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In my head I thought people like me just did not go to school.
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Try tennis, because it's the game my Dad taught me, and still teaches, 40 seasons in, at the high school not far from where I grew up.
When I look for lessons in leadership, 17-year old high school quarterbacks are typically not high on my list.
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The Duke of Edinburgh award scheme is a different matter, as it has 4 parts including service to the community, and the participation in this does not use up school time on the whole, and I support this movement whole-heartedly.
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As a professional school teacher, I am saddened that the public in most African countries does not ask hard questions.
But one of the points I did not make in the original article is that many, if not most internships take place during the school year, and are awarded academic credit.
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So I was not interested in the names of the people involved that we would forget, but where did they go to school (names we would remember).
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In the offending column, I was not trying to describe the individual lives of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented high school and college students in the United States.
And my ignorance of the financial consequences led me to reject my second-choice school that called to offer me more financial aid (in the form of grants, not loans, I assume) after I decided to attend my first-choice school but before formally accepting.
And this one is a pet peeve of mine, specifically because I work with people that have gone to Phoenix and other places online and knowing what I went through at brick and mortar state school, there is no doubt in my mind that these people DID NOT work nearly as hard or learn and took the classes I had to.
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