Word: blackboarding
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...George Washington Preparatory High, Los Angeles. Only four years ago, Washington High would have matched most people's Hollywood image of the blackboard jungle. "Morale here was terrible," recalls Margaret Wright, a leader of the parents' group. "The rooms were dirty, and 90% of the teachers were rotten...
...frequently encounter difficulties dealing with professors and teaching fellows; while many teachers show consideration towards the needs of handicapped students, others remain insensitive. For instance, one professor refused to show a deaf students a copy of his lecture outline. One section leader told a student unable to see the blackboard that "it was not his style" to make copies of his notes available...
WATCHING STANLEY JAFFE'S Without A Trace is like watching a professor scrape a piece of chalk on the blackboard: you want to see what he's going to say, but the method gives you an uncontrollable urge to turn away and leave. In Without a Trace, Jaffe's style of filming and connecting the plot often deters from his poignant and broadly applicable theme...
...marathon has attracted international publicity. Locally, a bar keeps a blackboard with a running tally of odds on the probable winner. MacKay is currently ahead at 8 to 1. But his wife confesses to mixed feelings about the venture. "Sometimes I think my husband is nuts," Linda sighs. "But I am with him 100%." MacKay, who keeps busy by teaching himself to play the guitar, seems prepared for a long sojourn. "It's like putting money into a used car," he says. "I've got too much in this now to give...
...ways and the old often mix badly. The faith of some recently established congregations in rural Thailand tends to waver if prayers go unanswered. At the Ban Ti Christian Church north of Lamphun, a large blackboard hangs on the wall behind the pulpit. Prayers for rain, a speedy harvest and painless cures for various maladies are recorded every Sunday, then checked off the following week against the results...