Thursday, April 23, 2009

Did you learn about wiretapping in 8th Grade?

Students seem riveted (yawn)...

TEACHER: You’re gonna look at— The words of the week for week five are wiretapping, source, suspicious, notwithstanding, which is a tough word to use in a sentence, and eliminate, okay? (
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Too bad. Illegal electronic surveillance is an important topic. Teacher,
Chris Buttimer, is raising an issue that was glossed over in schools when Nixon was on the hot seat; thus history repeated.