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  • Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade

    Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade0

    • December 4, 2017

    We’ve all seen how participation trophies have overtaken the world of kid sports. No longer is there one prize; instead, there are multiple awards for everything from first to tenth place. The backlash against this phenomenon is growing, however, and participation trophies are increasingly the butt of many jokes as Americans realize that awarding every

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  • Student: How Identity Politics Ruined My High School

    Student: How Identity Politics Ruined My High School0

    Owen Rickert always loved his school. The Blake School, a private college prep school, located in Hopkins, Minnesota, was a place he woke up excited to go to each morning. And then, about four years ago, something changed. “Slowly the unification of our great community began to deteriorate,” said Rickert, who had attended Blake since

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  • The Glorious Inefficiency of Local Bookstores

    The Glorious Inefficiency of Local Bookstores0

    Our family lives in the kind of town most people only see in fiction: an archetypal, small, Midwestern town of picket fences and blocks of mostly modest bungalows. Homes lining our main streets are, however, far from modest. Along these stand stately nineteenth-century dwellings, lovingly maintained, in spite of the increasing expense of doing so.

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