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  • Once that point has been reached, jurors –or judges, where they are acting as fact-finders, as we found with Judge Jones in the Kitzmiller trial, once it had become plain to him that the head of the schoolboard was a liar–have no problem whatsoever with the gloves coming off, or with relishing the lying witness’s further excoriation…

    This Worm Has Turned - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The typical attitude of a education dept. official in Canada today (not talking schoolboard here) is that they have more right to determine what and when the students learn, than the parents do.

    ProWomanProLife » Brigitte is being simplistic again 2010

  • As we heard from one of the women we interviewed for our book, a poet, nonprofit grant writer, schoolboard member and new mother: I wonder if some of our frustration is about the fact that it's virtually impossible to excel at everything -- wife, writer, teacher, runner, in my case -- and so we're always worried about the area in which we're not measuring up to our own expectations.

    Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Steve Jobs' Lessons For Women Barbara 2011

  • As we heard from one of the women we interviewed for our book, a poet, nonprofit grant writer, schoolboard member and new mother: I wonder if some of our frustration is about the fact that it's virtually impossible to excel at everything -- wife, writer, teacher, runner, in my case -- and so we're always worried about the area in which we're not measuring up to our own expectations.

    Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Steve Jobs' Lessons For Women Barbara 2011

  • Several other teachers were there, as well as nearby residents and one of the schoolboard members.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • Two months without calls from parents, schoolboard meetings, and doling out detention.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • We have huge curriculuum sp? issues, and a whole lot of elitist schoolboard boneheads cutting the parents and children out of discussion on them.

    Unplug Education. No Computers In Schools. - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2010

  • Two months without calls from parents, schoolboard meetings, and doling out detention.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • I had to wait to see it again almost a 10 years later, when they screened it at my high school as part of the "enrichment" program basically an effort by the local schoolboard to show movies of interest to us callow youth, like Night of the Living Dead, Woodstock and Let It Be, in an attempt to keep us from sneaking out during lunch period to do bong hits in the bleachers.

    Seminal Image Friday #2: Frames Within the Frame (Part Two) 2009

  • I could probably hook you up with a thank you letter with a schoolboard of broward county letterhead on it that you could probably use as a tax write-off...

    The Cruelty of Fate: Victimized Velos BikeSnobNYC 2009

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