Report on Micro Agressions

Spending the entire day in a stew
About racism on campus, what to do?
Really it has been more of a fog
Like the aftermath from too much grog.

Most kids do want to get along
At least, that's always been my song.
Though I also should be forthright and confess.
The White Conservative cultures causes me distress.

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Paying Attention

Going to a wokrshop
First time this semester
Attention please be nonstop
Though it's time for my siesta.

The Flunk Funk

Is it especially crass
To fail an entire class?
Should a student found cheating pass?
The whole bit an ethical morass.

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Numerous Examples of Numeracy

The term numeracy appears now in vogue.
Does calling it algebra make one a rogue?
Whatever you call it, we should all be tense
Cause American kids lack this competence.

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What wrath hath math?

Teaching math to those who will apply it
Part of the issue is getting them to buy it.
Wouldn't it be grand
For kids to conceptually understand?
But the technology beckons, so they don't try it.

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The Damage in TV-ifying Academia

Sacrificing the truth for the pretty
Ex post seems such a pity.
What is the lure
That gets to researchers pure
Then provides fodder for this ditty?

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Teaching and Preaching

Our petulant pedant persisted.
Though irritating all he insisted.
It's never absurd
To select the right word.
Of this correct composition consisted.

The Path to Critical Thinking

Is it the college major or the reading habit
That gives birth to the virtual rabbit
The one that gets pulled from a hat
By which to enable that

A dullard can reach the brink
Beyond which he's able to think
Making sense of the mysterious and complex
That had previously did his brain vex?

Pundits tend to glorify the U
Disregarding what it's apt to do
With the chase after the high GPA
Actually causing the brain to decay.

Montaigne preferred the company of peasants
Whose minds were unspoiled by pedants
So rather than push for the latest learning fashion
Ask what can fuel the mind's passion. 

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