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It's one thing for a headline to be inexact, it's another thing to be a standard clickbait perversion of the contents.

I don't get why people are seeing this as egregious clickbait. It's taking well known saying "going back to school" and using it in a figurative, instead of literal, sense.

He IS "revisiting" high school, in a sense. Most people graduate high school and never look back. Munroe is looking back. The title did not say he would be a student.

Call me crazy, but I wish news articles would focus more on being information and less on being comics or novels intended to drag you along.

Choosing a cute, misleading title over an accurate one seems like the wrong choice.

Agreed. I like maltz's suggested clickbait title "The shocking change at your kids' high school you absolutely must know about".

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