Sunday, September 02, 2007

The Final Letter of Herzog's Concise Sunday

Truancy has no single cure. Students skip school because of illness, to work, to care for younger siblings or infirm grandparents, because they have become disaffected or for more nefarious reasons — drugs and other criminal conduct.

-Harold O. Levy and Kimberly Henry in the Times Week in Review
Dear Harry and Kim,

Students skip school because American public education is boring, creepily nationalistic, inherently totalitarian, and indoors.

Your friend,
IOZ

3 comments:

Ashley said...

Don't stop now!

Anonymous said...

You sure have been a friendly and helpful fellow lately.

Ultima Ratio said...

You ever notice how much your average public high school looks like a prison?

You ever notice (and watch the first half of S.2 of The Wire) how much your average prison looks like high school?