• tuckerm@feddit.online
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    2 months ago

    Haha, I remember the teachers’ back-to-school letters always saying, “A plain three ring binder is all your child will need. Excessively large binders are only a distraction.”

    And then every kid shows up with the biggest, puffiest Trapper Keeper with all of these pockets and compartments and embossed shiny pictures of football players on them.

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      2 months ago

      We had peechees, no compartments or anything to speak of and still managed to use them for artistic expression. The distraction was coming from inside the student