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Backwards Thinking of the Day: Pinellas Schools Reconsider Black Student Discipline

By Jason A. Staples

Here’s a great example of backwards thinking: apparently black students in Pinellas County schools are suspended and arrested at a disproportionately higher rate than students of other races. The proposed solution: an agreement has been drafted in which the schools are supposed to be “thinking about options and utilizing those options.” In other words,... »

A Few Thoughts on “Avatar”

By Jason A. Staples

I finally got a chance to watch Avatar in 3D the other night—strictly business, of course, since I had assigned it to the Sociology of Religion class for which I am guest-lecturing this evening on the nature and definition of religion, using Avatar as a launching point. It was essentially what I had heard:... »