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wcg February 23 2010, 17:06:15 UTC
Eric Taylor is a wonderful coach, but I don't think he'd be a very good science teacher. Then again, Texas used to do stuff like that until the voters made the school districts stop it.

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bookshop February 23 2010, 17:09:42 UTC

huh. when i was growing up, Tennessee made all the coaches teach other classes as well. With only one exception (who incidentally reminds me of Coach Taylor, haha), I had horrible experiences with coaches who taught in my school, so I naturally thought it was a horrible idea. When I was at Girl's State, this was one of my "platform" issues that I wanted to put a halt to in terms of education reform, but literally all the other girls in the group with me thought I was crazy for bringing it up, haha. Now I'm really intrigued about whether Tennessee is still doing this.

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wcg February 23 2010, 17:26:36 UTC
In Texas the rule is that anybody who teaches a high school class has to hold a teaching certificate in that subject. So there are some coaches who are also teachers, but that's because they have dual certification in PE and whatever subject they're also teaching. The rule has been in effect since 1984, and was largely due to the efforts of Ross Perot.

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bookshop February 23 2010, 18:16:02 UTC

At my school coaches *had* to teach, but they taught subjects that had nothing to do with coaching. Which makes sense from a budget standpoint, just... not from an educational one, as far as I'm concerned, because usually they were fine coaches, but they weren't the greatest teachers.

Then again, the year after I graduated, the whole school board was indicted for fraud and our superintendent was sent to prison, so education=never the greatest priority in my disctrict. :))

Also in Friday Night Lights there is at least one offhand reference made to Eric teaching, because he mentions having papers to grade at some point.

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electrizity February 23 2010, 17:14:33 UTC
What an awesome dream! I am envious. I wish Lady Gaga would show up in my dreams and sit next to me. And you know she's an old pro at wearing that headgear now, and that it's all in the name of Fashion and Art and World Peace or something anyway, of course she'd be unimpressed with the question.

Also, Hugh Laurie as high school teacher? DO WANT. I'm kind of sad that I've been deprived of this experience.

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not_amy February 23 2010, 17:41:18 UTC
You know, I'm in a class about the history of computers. When I saw the title of your post I thought it was a post in the class blog feed and was confused.

/random

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molokomolotov February 23 2010, 18:27:03 UTC
GAGA IS AMAZING EVEN IN DREAMS.

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melodylemming February 23 2010, 20:16:00 UTC
I love Kate Beaton's work. My favorite is this one, probably because I am a snobbish history geek.

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bookshop February 23 2010, 20:19:37 UTC

oh my god i had not seen that one yet. sdklaf STEALTH! ASSASSIN!!!!!

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melodylemming February 23 2010, 20:25:54 UTC
Also do you follow her on twitter? Did you see her Al Capone and Ben Franklin Valentines?

My brother's favorite is the George Orwell one. He uses the first panel as his desktop background.

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bookshop February 23 2010, 20:30:37 UTC

adkj; i LOVE that one. i do follow her on twitter! but this is only a recent development, Kate Beaton, where have you been all my life? "DON'T YOU WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THIS!"

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