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...city bus in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, played a pregnant nun in Almodovar's All About My Mother, made love to a disfigured roue in Open Your Eyes, resisted the advances of Joseph Goebbels in The Girl of Your Dreams and, in her first American role, provided a beacon of moral beauty for cowboy Billy Crudup in The Hi-Lo Country...
...from a monumental achievement, this decision shows that the voice of students can still make a difference. Moreover, it gives a beacon of hope that the elite of the political realm genuinely regret the prevailing malaise and still value the contributions of the voting youth...
...taught in public schools for 20 years before becoming fed up with what she calls the "rigid, bureaucratic monolith" of public education. Kids need to learn continuously all year, she believes, and schools need to stop invading the little family time Americans have left. So in 1982 she started Beacon, which in 18 years has grown from seven students to 300 on two campuses, with a wait list. The 240-day elementary-school calendar is not as daunting as it seems. Families can take vacation time whenever they want (a carefully individualized curriculum makes this possible), so most Beacon kids...
Preserving that time is one reason Annie's parents, who both work outside the home, were drawn to Beacon. Annie plays recreational soccer, does art projects with Mom using polymer clays (a favorite hobby), helps cook dinner, does laundry, cleans up after her hamster and still gets to bed by 8:30. "The kids aren't rushed all the time," says Annie's dad Peter. "Many of our friends have to force their kids to do the two hours of homework each night, the kids hate the parents, and the parents end up hating the school...
...college? Farley says that's a myth. "Homework usually brings major family interference, there's downloading of book reports from the Internet, there's Daddy doing the science experiment. Who's getting discipline? I think it's the parents." It helps her case that Farley can point to Beacon's students' standardized-test scores, which rank among the best in the state...