A Shoutout To Westside High, NYC

By Steve Hynd

Wandering through our Statcounter records today, I came across some webhits from http://www.tnellen.com/westside/hwtw.html. I followed the link back, did a Google search and discovered that the CyberEnglish course at Westside High is run by Ted Nellen, an innovative teacher at a "last chance' school where students get a chance to complete their basic education after hard knocks and real life got in the way the first time.

As someone who minored in English and has a degree in Philosophy (because I discovered I prefered the ideas to the wordsmithing used to write them down prettily) I was mightily impressed by Ted's course. Ambitious stuff which will help his graduates think "outside the box" forever after.

So this is just to tell Ted and the students at Westside High how incredibly proud and pleased we are to discover they found a place for Newshoggers in their curriculum. And under "satire", yet! Perfect.

(P.S. Guys, for your assignment check out the "snark" tagged archive.)