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Seriously? Seriously.....

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The television show Grey’s Anatomy has made the word seriously a go to word when shocked, surprised, angry, etc. as seen in this video: I’ve even been known to use it myself, so when a friend sent me the following pictures I started thinking about the concept of the word serious and its connotations regarding the field of education. These pictures show a different kind of airline, don’t they? The labeling on the plane reminds me of primary elementary classrooms where the teacher labels everything,and the classroom itself becomes a functional word wall….. desk, chair, television, computer, etc. These are photos of a South African plane belonging to Kulula Airlines …. To say they do things different at Kulula is an understatement. Here are a few statements you might hear if you are a Kulula passenger: On a Kulula flight, (there is no assigned seating, you just sit where you want) passengers were apparently having a hard time choosing, when a flight attendant announced, "People, peop...