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kleinbl00 · 1961 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Academic Apocalypse: The crisis of English departments is also a crisis of faith.
By fourth grade I routinely wrote my assignments in the form of parody. I would stick to the absolute letter of the law as far as the assignment was concerned while also stretching everything to its most ridiculous extreme. I got thrown out of a class a year - permanently - for about six years. I have yet to meet an English or Art teacher who is willing to discuss any assertion beyond "because I said so."