Final exams are often a stressful season in the lives of college students. But one professor at the University of Maryland adds to the chaos by making his students think about test answers other students will give!
And the results often reveal deep insights about our society.
When the scoreboard at Aberdeen High School’s football field fell into disrepair, a few alumni – who just happen to play in the NFL – stepped forward to save the day. They wrote a big check and gave it to the school…along with one condition.
But the cash-strapped school called an audible at the line of scrimmage.
Kaleb Eulls, a 6’ 4” 255 lb defensive end, is used to protecting against the pass rush for his Yazoo County High School football team. But on Tuesday morning, September 1, 2009, he had to protect a school bus full of kids from a student carrying a .38 caliber pistol.
Ms. Spiller was making final preparations for “Career Day” in her first grade classroom when her students began to trickle in. The young children were always excited to learn about the jobs of their friends’ parents.
But this year would be one that Ms. Spiller would never forget….
Mrs. Rawlings stood in front of her class of second graders and said, “Today’s word is definitely. The word definitely means ‘absolutely, positively, without a doubt.’ Can anyone use the word definitely in a sentence?”
And that’s when the “train left the track.”
Dylan wasn’t getting good grades. Maybe it was his short attention span. Maybe it was because he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Maybe it was a combination of the two. Regardless, his grades didn’t float; they weren’t above “C level.”
Among the more interesting expressions in our culture is this one: saved by the bell. In fact, Saved by the Bell was the name of a highly popular, after-school television program in the 90s that followed the ups and downs of high school students.
But while American kids are often “saved by the bell,” students at one school in Uganda could have easily been killed by their “bell.”
Two trains leave Chicago at the same time. One heads south at 55mph while the other goes north at 38mph with a tailwind of 14 knots. If the first train’s engineer has blue eyes…WHO CARES? Hardly anybody uses this sort of algebra.
But there’s some “algebra” in the Bible that everybody can use.
Origen’s life is just as significant today as it was when he lived it during the 2nd and 3rd Century A.D. He taught at Christian schools, wrote many commentaries on the Bible, and produced some of the greatest defenses of the faith in his time.
But his life was almost cut short by martyrdom when he was still a young boy.
It was Mrs. Philips’ birthday, and her 4th grade class brought in presents to celebrate their teacher’s special day.
One of the students, whose parents owned a florist shop in town, gave Mrs. Philips a box. She held it out and said, “I think this is flowers.” The little 9-year-old girl’s mind was blown. “How’d you guess?” she asked. Mrs. Philips just chuckled and thanked her.
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