My online students for this class are not nearly as good as my last one. This weekend, I think most of them had big, heaping bowls of Stupid for breakfast. None of them seems able to solve a relatively simple… Continue Reading
From the outside looking in, one might think that lawyers eat luxury meals for lunch and dinner; martinis and bleu cheese salads for lunch, and rich French red wines with steaks and lobsters for dinner every day. It’s not true.… Continue Reading
A Gray Lady article about UoP reveals this criticism: “According to federal statistics and government audits, the university relies more on part-time instructors than all but a few other postsecondary institutions, and its accelerated academic schedule races students through course… Continue Reading
An attorney at the firm asked me today if I’d found any groups in the area since moving here that I wanted to join. The Wife has done well in this regard, having found a Toastmasters group that she likes.… Continue Reading
On Tuesday nights, when I travel to Adelanto to teach my business law class, I have to endure a long drive through a lonely, barren desert. When I get there, there is not a whole lot to eat — the… Continue Reading
I’m blogging with what’s left of my lunch hour, so I need to be quick. Three students showed up for last night’s class. The school may well cancel the class if they can’t get at least five. At least I… Continue Reading
I won’t be home until eleven tonight, at least. Victorville is an hour each way, and today I need to go an hour early so I can undergo a security screening. By the end of it, I’m sure I’m going… Continue Reading
The Wife and I used some of our day to go get some things to improve our quality of life. We got some coat hooks to hand up near our doors and to replace the fallen towel hook in the… Continue Reading
I hate grading papers. It’s very time-consuming, it’s tedious, and it drains my hopes for the ability of college students to properly function in the real world after they demonstrate substantial deficits in critical thinking skills. In turn, my students… Continue Reading
Turns out one in five schoolchildren in the United Kingdom does not have the ability to locate the United Kingdom on a map. For a long time, we’ve been bemoaning the lack of education in the United States. I suppose… Continue Reading