How did you earn your desk?

I have no idea if this story is true or not, but it is one hell of a story.
Jeff O'Bryant: A good story, an important lesson

Imagine, if you will, that you are back in high school and, on the first day of school, you walk into your social studies class and find that there are no desks. The teacher tells you and your classmates that, until you can answer her question, the classroom will remain empty of desks. By the last period of the day the whole school is abuzz, news crews have arrived to report on the story, and still nobody has figured out the answer to the teacher’s question which was “How do the students earn their desks?”

Go on over to the article from The Catoosa County News

We could use a few more Social Studies teachers like that.

Read this! Now!

Bill Whittle is a freakin’ genius. What he writes should be incorporated into high school curricula and taught to each and every student in the land. You should read—no—you must read this, his latest, two part essay.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE (Part 1)
YOU ARE NOT ALONE (Part 2)

And then go read all of his stuff if you haven’t read any of it yet, or even if you have read it once—or twice.
Bill Whittle’s other stuff can be found here: Eject! Eject! Eject!