{"id":183,"date":"2005-06-21T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/my-summer-scholars-course-with-paula-didnt-make\/"},"modified":"2005-06-21T22:07:03","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T03:07:03","slug":"my-summer-scholars-course-with-paula-didnt-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/my-summer-scholars-course-with-paula-didnt-make\/","title":{"rendered":"My Summer Scholars course with Paula didn&#8217;t make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned today that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/cerp\/youth\/summerscholars\/\">Summer Scholars<\/a> course that I was gonna teach with Paula next month died for lack of people signing up.  I&#8217;m disappointed because it would have been a cool subject and a cool group of students and a blast teaching with Paula, but I&#8217;m also somewhat relieved to know that I get those two weeks of my life back.  (The students are high school students that live on campus for the two weeks, and we spend a <em>lot<\/em> of time with them while they&#8217;re here.)  The summer already feels like it&#8217;s half over, and the to-do list just hasn&#8217;t shrunk much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our course was going to be on dissent and censorship.  I think it would have been really interesting, but it&#8217;s a somewhat difficult topic to present and sell to high school students.  Paula and I keen to try again next year, and hopefully we&#8217;ll figure out how to draw in more people then.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned today that the Summer Scholars course that I was gonna teach with Paula next month died for lack of people signing up. I&#8217;m disappointed because it would have been a cool subject and a cool group of students and a blast teaching with Paula, but I&#8217;m also somewhat relieved to know that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/my-summer-scholars-course-with-paula-didnt-make\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Summer Scholars course with Paula didn&#8217;t make&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-2X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1278,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/05\/15\/farewell-and-safe-voyages\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":0},"title":"Farewell, and safe voyages","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 May 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Graduation is an occupational hazard for all teachers from pre-school and kindergarden on up. 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