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Teamwork also creates buddies. On housecleaning day, divvy up chores and reward collaboration by treating the whole family to a movie. Another trick: assign kids tasks to accomplish together without adult aid. "When my two kids were in elementary school, they used to prepare dinner for us occasionally," Stewart said. "We ate a lot of Campbell's tomato soup and grilled-cheese sandwiches, and they learned to cooperate...
...persuading the trial court to assign more judges to his district and transforming trailers into courtrooms, Sullivan said, they were able to reduce the average time between arraignment and trial from over a year to a matter of weeks...
Everywhere but here, it seems, the clamor for higher standards has driven schools to assign more and more homework. Grade-school children now average well in excess of two hours of homework a night, compared with 85 minutes in 1981, according to the University of Michigan. Last year the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reported that thousands of kids have back, neck and shoulder problems from lugging heavy backpacks. At Beacon the books stay at school; each day Annie carries only her bright blue lunchbox...
...such as, "Why isn't one a prime number?" and "Why aren't we allowed to smoke during break?"). Nothing I teach will help students in school or life, with the possible exception of the work ethic they might develop through dutifully completing the monotonous homework sections I assign directly out of a manual. The learning process is nothing. The end goal--raising scores and deceiving college admissions officers--is everything...
...engaged in diagnosing the perpetrator's state of mind, then we may need an infinitely more complex system of laws than what we have now. If we assign, say, 12 years' imprisonment for a crime motivated by hate, then we must presumably work out a calculus of penalties for crimes committed for reasons of jealousy, or of lust, or of compassion (the Kevorkian assist, e.g.). I would like to see an entire new branch of law developed to deal out sentences for crimes committed for reasons of sheer stupidity...