Banned for hereditary "fun".

Banned for heir conditioning.

Banned for banning and then getting trolled by the banned.

Banned for having a question mark as your avatar.

Banned because I am working on my halloween decorations in record time.

banned for I don't know if I would say we're a blank slate, but to imagine taht the history of a people has no affect on how they develop as a whole or teach their young is foolhardy. I assume that you decided of your own free will to start speaking Swahili as a child?

And yes, I'm American.

Banned because I wish I could wave a magic wand and give my students the gift of loving to read.

I'd settle for them just doing the boring reading they need for their classes. It's about making my head spin around to have had many students look me in the eye and explain that they just don't like the textbook or don't like reading in general. Where are the RIF Hooligans when you need them? 

Banned because it isn't the schools, it's the culture.

Banned for I realize that you did not mean to say genetics rather than culture, but you fail to realise that when dealing with such massive sets of people and making inductive statements about them that you might as well claim that it's knowledge passed down genetically if you ignore the capability of members within the sets to reject their culture or heritage or otherwise not to continue down weird superstitions about the number 13 regardless of whether some people of Norway honored it or some people of Britain loathed the number.

Banned because I wasn't at all admiring the NCLB teach-to-the-test problems.

I'm simply adamant about the fact that teachers and schools are being treated as scapegoats because they have full responsibility as gatekeepers and extremely limited power to actually improve student performance in a larger culture that devalues literacy and critical thinking. Private schools are allowed to select their students for potential and to quickly separate students who are clearly not living up to their potential. Public schools have to try to help everyone else. Which I guess is why we have these evil teachers' unions struggling to fatten up their salaries so they can afford to buy school supplies for their students and maybe have a nice dinner out once in a while.

Re college costs, I'll earn the full wrath of the wall-o-text-haters if I get started. My students pay just over 300 bucks for a 3 semester hour class. They took the word "community" out of our college name recently, but the spirit is still there. 

Banned for some of your statement seems to indicate that you may think that I blame teachers for the poor situation and I did not consider you to be admiring a crappy system which rewards superficial achievement.

$100 per credit hour? That would almost make it sound worth it to return to college. I doubt the community college you teach for is academically worse than the private school I was paying $2,000 per bloody credit hour for, merely to find that their textbooks were coffee table books and their instructors didn't even check the references so long as they sounded real and were in proper format. It was a waste of $16,000 which went to a stupid building fund practically. Yes, I would assume that they'd pay their instructors/professors next to nothing so as to maximize their profits just like Wal-Mart in how they pay their employees just slightly more than McDonald's so that they keep their profit margin high while providing the bare minimum incentive not to leave due to being financially bound slaves.

Banned for a new funny GMail add- once again from my graphic novel account:

"What really attracts men. 5 ugly mistakes women make that ruin relationships forever."

Does my email account think I'm female because my two main characters are women???

Banned because I knew it would get back to tits and giggles eventually.

Your email account can't think yet, but it does seem to have algorithms that need some fine tuning. Me, I try to avoid replying directly to any of my friends with Gmail accounts. There's nothing like scroogle mail yet, but I'm still hoping.