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• The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.
  "The librarians in our town's school system have reported that the number of trips that our students make to their school library on a voluntary basis has decreased significantly in recent years....
• The following appeared in a memo from the Principal of Sherwood Junior High School.
  "It appears that the lighting in Sherwood High's classrooms, which have large windows but minimal overhead light sources, is impairing student academic performance and teacher morale....
• The City of Palo Alto, in its official description of parking lot standards, specifies the grade of wheelchair access ramps in terms of centimeters of rise per foot of run.
  A compromise, I imagine......
• One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay.
  I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level....
• On one occasion a student burst into his office. "Professor Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this F you've given me.
  To which Stigler replied, "I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the University will allow me to award....
• GAP: Grade All Projec
• IGI: Increment Grade Immediate
• IGO: Increment Grade Overnigh
• Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage.
  It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher say...