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	Topic	Posts	Started By	Last Post	Date
	Education?	4	CeeBee	TheMudge	Nov 11, 2008 12:27 PM
	A student's clothes	5	CeeBee	OldGuy	Oct 03, 2008 07:29 PM
	Basics and "Higher" Education	15	TheMudge	OldBrenda	Aug 30, 2008 04:17 PM
	Invective language	6	Endi	Endi	Aug 09, 2008 12:10 PM
	Long multiplication and division	14	Endi	Pogo	Jun 25, 2008 11:24 AM
	Frustrations of "Professor X"	8	Sapninman	TheMudge	Jun 01, 2008 02:39 PM
	"A moment of silence"	11	CeeBee	TheMudge	May 30, 2008 10:41 PM
	Trivial Question About Pencils	7	TheMudge	CeeBee	May 10, 2008 03:27 PM
	Can market forces fix education?	2	TheMudge	Pogo	Apr 21, 2008 08:32 AM
	Innovative boarding schools	5	CeeBee	CeeBee	Apr 05, 2008 08:40 PM
	A New Essay on Education	3	TheMudge	TheMudge	Feb 15, 2008 09:54 PM
	Unpenalised errors	12	Endi	CeeBee	Feb 06, 2008 11:14 AM
	Those olden, golden school days...	3	CeeBee	CeeBee	Feb 01, 2008 08:00 PM
	Psychology and Motivation	7	TheMudge	CeeBee	Jan 19, 2008 08:27 PM
	Relevance	7	Pogo	Pogo	Dec 31, 2007 09:10 AM
	Only one foreign language choice for students?	2	CeeBee	Pogo	Dec 28, 2007 11:57 AM
	True Story for Comment	7	TheMudge	Brenda	Nov 22, 2007 02:59 PM
	A New Four-Year Plan	3	Brenda	TheMudge	Nov 06, 2007 09:33 AM
	What Would You Do?	31	TheMudge	TheMudge	Oct 25, 2007 12:11 PM
	Classroom size and type	6	CeeBee	Pogo	Oct 08, 2007 12:35 PM
	Are Bright Kids Left Behind?	5	TheMudge	TheMudge	Sep 28, 2007 07:25 AM
	Alerting a parent	3	CeeBee	TheMudge	Sep 24, 2007 09:38 PM
	School uniforms	5	CeeBee	Pogo	Sep 24, 2007 03:14 PM
	I laughed, but no one else did	2	Brenda	TheMudge	Aug 24, 2007 09:36 PM
	NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND	7	Bradd	Brenda	Aug 14, 2007 08:47 PM

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