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IDEA Creates Libertarians?

A libertarian special education teacher. Correlation or causation? You decide.

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2 Responses to “IDEA Creates Libertarians?”

JW in MS Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Sort of a mobius strip of thought. As one, nothing else makes any kind of rational sense, although one of my friends argues that I am a populist. I think it is frustration with the status quo that makes us develop into both things at the same time. I wonder what the educational landscape will look like by the end of 2009? I wonder her landscape will look like by the end of 2009?
Anonymous Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
What does any of that mean? She’s just hot.

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