by snarly | Aug 2, 2024 | Academic apologies
A kind reader alerted us yesterday to this apology from Royall Elementary School in Florence, South Carolina. School started there this week, and to welcome students back, Royall offered an “Olympic parade,” celebrating the Olympic prowess of different countries. Fun!...
by sumac | May 2, 2019 | Academic apologies, Institutional Apologies
Kurt Eichenwald was a college freshman. Liked Swarthmore, great roommates, fun. Mostly. Some weird worrisome health things – so he asked his parents if he could get checked out when he came home for Thanksgiving. His father, a famed pediatrician, directed the...
by snarly | Apr 11, 2019 | Academic apologies, Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies, Youth apologizes
Does an apology erase the past? Of course not. But an apology still has value. A good one can help people who are hurt and angry feel better. That’s not nothing. The word “heal” is wildly overused (often by people who apologize badly, who use the...
by snarly | Jan 22, 2019 | Academic apologies, Religious Apologies, Youth apologizes
Belated Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019 good wishes from SorryWatch! Perhaps you’ve seen the video going around social media (and written about in Saturday’s New York Post and Daily News) depicting three white female students at Brooklyn’s elite...
by snarly | Aug 27, 2018 | Academic apologies, Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
One half of Team SorryWatch is now off in the desert, perhaps with no pants on, perhaps not. (This was a reference to one of our most popular posts, in which Sumac reported about a camp at Burning Man that specialized in helping people apologize. It’s a great...
by snarly | Aug 14, 2018 | Academic apologies, Media Apologies, Youth apologizes
It’s a good apology! Hallelujah! The current (Aug/Sept) print issue of BUST features an article called “Shoplifters of the World.” It turns out to have been lifted (see what I did there) from a 2016 article in Good. (FULL DISCLOSURE! Snarly has...
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