Thursday, December 11, 2008

Teacher Day

This is a wonderful article. With all the complaining about high school, this sounds like the ticket to me.

No iPods. No cellphones. No MySpace or Facebook. And always a sergeant around to keep things in check. No wonder the Army Preparatory School is working.

by Scott J Cech
Columbia, SC

This is not your average classroom.

All of the 15 students in the English class Christin M. Bradshaw is teaching on a late-October afternoon are dressed identically in desert fatigues and combat boots. All the young men have uniform buzz cuts. Outside, there is the faint popping of distant rifle practice and the shouted commands of drill sergeants marching platoons of soldiers in lock step.

For more of the story go HERE.

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