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Kids These Days Suck at Law School
Hamilton Nolan · 08/20/15 11:13AMStudy: It's Your Fault Your Kids Are Dumb
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Kids These Days Just as Dumb as You Were
Hamilton Nolan · 06/28/13 08:38AMEvery once in a while you run into one of these fresh-mouthed young high school graduates declaring they're going to "change the world" with their "apps" and their "new paradigm" and their "great idea for an electronic dance beat." News flash, kiddos: you're mediocre at best, just like your old man.
If You Go to College to Learn to Blog You Are a God Damn Sucker
Hamilton Nolan · 02/18/13 05:50PMSo then, it's a new academic program straight outta Duke University: "Write(H)ers," which will, according to the Duke Chronicle, "create a community of feminist-oriented writers," by, you know, teaching women how to blog. Specifically—direct quote—"The 23 members of the program will participate in personal blogging." This new program is officially sponsored by the Women's Center at Duke University, a school with a tuition of $43,623 per year.
Proudly Unethical Website Hires Unemployed College Professors to Write Essays for Students
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/13/12 11:35AMACT Report Finds Only 1 in 4 High School Graduates Actually College-Ready
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/24/12 09:05AMWhat Our Kids Need Now Is Less School
Hamilton Nolan · 07/06/11 12:16PMTexas Teachers Are Basically Prison Wardens
Hamilton Nolan · 06/13/11 04:44PMSure, bleeding heart PC types killed a bill earlier this year that would have allowed guns on college campuses in Texas. Consolation prize: Texas is "close to enacting" a new bill that will give school teachers detailed criminal histories of all their students. Because you never know when the next six-year-old will shoot up the school, or which kid's birthday party is actually cover for a cockfighting ring. Down in Texas, the legislators are armed, the merest whiff of lawbreaking gets you jailed, and prisoners get put down like dogs. You never know when one of these public school kids might get brainwashed by a Muslim textbook and start some serious jee-had. If our teachers can't have guns, well, at least we can "arm" them with the precise knowledge of just how evil these felons-to-be lurking in their classroom are. And also, maybe arm them with a knife?
Law School Even More of a Ripoff Than Previously Thought
Hamilton Nolan · 05/02/11 09:49AMLaw school is a huge ripoff—a catch-all haven for slackers and the existentially aimless, where you'll go into a huge amount of debt in order to surround yourself with beer pong-players and cute little dogs, and emerge unemployable, with nothing to do with your worthless new skills except sue to try to get your law school tuition back. Now, we can add to that list: they'll bait-and-switch your ass out of scholarship money, on purpose!