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...soon as I put my class in groups to work on acting out a vocabulary word or preparing a debate case, they are endlessly in motion, sliding back and forth across the classroom, jumping up from their seats, running in and out of our door. They scream, whine and fight unless I let Hermela, Mercedes and Shavon be one group, while Justin, Hassan and Elon remove themselves to the other side of the room...
...grade, people warned me that I was going through the hardest time. It was hard—we got graded for the first time, I felt excluded by cliques—but because I went to an all-girls’ school, I never experienced a classroom, cafeteria, or gym with boys...
...Suburban schools would have faced the choice of sending hundreds of Metco students back to Boston this fall—away from their classmates and teachers—or covering the students’ expenses completely out of their own pocket. Boston and Springfield would have struggled to find classroom space for students who were forced to return to the city. Fortunately, the Massachusetts House and Senate reached a compromise to continue level-funding Metco for at least next year—but the program is still millions of dollars short of being able to serve all the students...
...learned the Pledge of Allegiance before the words under God were inserted into it. We did not know anything was missing. Even without God, it was a Norman Rockwell scene: little white boys and girls with their hands over their hearts, facing a flag in the corner of a classroom in northwest Washington, D.C., struggling with the tough five syllables of "indivisible," while children across the racial divide in all-black schools in northeast and southwest Washington ghettos recited the same patriotic words to begin the school day. The black children grasped the details of the affirmation as little...
...book has come under fire from some for its title, which some critics claim was a marketing ploy. It has received national attention and was featured as the subject of a classroom discussion on an episode of the Fox television drama “Boston Public...