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...heard her. Every time I thought there was a fire drill...
...April 21, a day after the massacre just one state away, sixth-grader Susan Teran joined her classmates in practicing a new drill called Code Red. First they locked the door to their classroom in Marshall Middle School in Wichita, Kans. Then they placed their chairs on top of the tables and pushed the tables against the wall, out of the windows' line of sight. Then they crawled beneath the entire pile. At first they were too slow, and although Susan's teacher didn't say too slow for what, nobody needed to ask. The second time, Susan reports proudly...
Back when I was in school, the surreal fear hovering above our heads was about the atom bomb. Our duck-and-cover drills were designed to protect us, somehow, from the Big One. Nowadays, we drill our kids on what to do if a classmate goes nuclear. It's an unlikely scenario, just as the Bomb was. But when you eavesdrop on kids these days, there's the painful possibility you'll hear them speculating on who in their class might be most likely to play Doom for real. The shootings at Columbine, Conyers and elsewhere remind us that...
...drill continues at Gaithersburg Middle School, where even school T shirts are emblazoned GMS: WHERE CHARACTER COUNTS! No separate classes in character are taught, but teachers say it is integrated into the curriculum; thus a lesson about Helen Keller becomes a case study in courage and persistence. Students who demonstrate any of the pillars get their pictures posted in the hallway and free ice cream. Character ed, says principal David Steinberg, "is our philosophical glue." Among some students, though, there are signs the glue doesn't stick. "Most people just follow it to get the award," says sixth-grader Novlette...
...moral universe." Blow-by-blow reenactments of romantic encounters between friends, delivered directly to my inbox-most of which are quite hysterical in retrospect (but don't tell them that until the 25th reunion; they won't take it well). A mention of my first 5 a.m. fire drill, when I suddenly learned that I am among the .01 percent of Harvard students who do not wear glasses. A memo about a friend's decision to donate blood in order to get out of section. (Maybe I thought it was a good idea.) A disastrous e-mail that I sent...