Comments on: Loaded with salsa http://joannejacobs.com/2005/04/30/loaded-with-salsa/ Free-linking and thinking on education by Joanne Jacobs Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: SuperSub http://joannejacobs.com/2005/04/30/loaded-with-salsa/#comment-23550 SuperSub Sun, 01 May 2005 11:06:32 +0000 http://joannejacobsblog.com/2005/04/30/loaded-with-salsa/#comment-23550 I dunno... if that were me with the burrito the authorities would have been correct in considering it a chemical weapon :-P I dunno… if that were me with the burrito the authorities would have been correct in considering it a chemical weapon :-P

]]> By: instructivist http://joannejacobs.com/2005/04/30/loaded-with-salsa/#comment-23549 instructivist Sun, 01 May 2005 04:05:59 +0000 http://joannejacobsblog.com/2005/04/30/loaded-with-salsa/#comment-23549 "An eighth grader had created the giant burrito for an extra-credit assignment." This must be hands-on mania gone awry. Wouldn't it have been better to assign a research project or a book report or something similar. It's amazing how much time gets wasted with trivial activities, and then educationists complain that basics are an onerous requirement for which there is no time. “An eighth grader had created the giant burrito for an extra-credit assignment.”

This must be hands-on mania gone awry. Wouldn’t it have been better to assign a research project or a book report or something similar. It’s amazing how much time gets wasted with trivial activities, and then educationists complain that basics are an onerous requirement for which there is no time.

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