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I really like Dave. He told me he bought one of the first Apple II’s when he was 14 and that he used to be “a crazy kid, writing video game programs all night.” Dave is also a musician (the long blond hair cascading past his shoulders made that easy to figure out) and liked the Apple’s MIDI capabilities.

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While I do think our country faces a much bigger question around education and the appropriate levels of funding for it, I wonder if we can all play a small part in trying to better understand the situation at our own school.

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Keeping a student in for recess hurts us as much as it hurts them because that’s the only time we get some peace and quiet.

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You celebrate the little things every single day.

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A buddy of mine who went to high school in Los Angeles once had 10% of his grade lowered on a report because when he stapled them together, he did it horizontally instead of at a 45 degree angle.

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She won’t be partaking in this project in the same way that we did not partake in creating a large cardboard sunflower, a design-our-own board game, or a “cloud photography” assignment.

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“COOTIES, YOU HAVE COOTIES!”

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Darren was my torturer. Like, it was as if we were in a 35-year-long marriage — that’s how obsessed he was with making my life miserable.