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What doesn't kill me, will probably try again.

Posted by Emily Brooks on Tuesday, May 5, 2009,

    I have been seated in the same bent and broken desk at Greencastle High School for the last four years, etching questions on my brain that only cut deeper and deeper everyday, now more than ever:
What am I going to learn here? I've yet to answer that question.
Where am I going to use this stuff? Two words: Standardized Tests, after that, nowhere.
And now, last but not least... Why is there such a gap in the relationship between teachers and students? Because, my dear friend, teachers get p...


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Risk taking

Posted by Emily Brooks on Friday, May 1, 2009,
I realize there is a huge risk in putting something I write on an open blog. That's because I'm a terribly trusting person. I don't believe someone take something that a mediocre writer would post publically and uncopy-righted. I do not believe that what I write is amazing. I can't bethe judge of that, that's why I want you, reader, to be.

I would like to say that I am putting my full trust in whoever you are, whoever comes across my website that what I have to say is not exploited on the inte...
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