Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother bought him a tape recorder when George was in the eighth grade and he started recording short comical skits--"news, sports, all the stuff that established my comedy"--and visions of radio and music and disc-jockey slick distracted Carlin from his studies. He eventually quit school...
...mile run was won by 17-year-old Julie Nolan of Jefferson High School. Sport is, and will remain, part of her life. "I've been running since the fifth or sixth grade. I want to run in college and then run in marathons." She admires Marathoner Miki Gorman, who ran her fastest when she was in her 40s. "That's what I'd like to be doing," she says. Asked if she has been treated differently since she got involved in sports, this once-and-future athlete seemed perplexed: "I don't know, because I've always been...
...said the minimum standards for a passing grade "were inconceivably low" and had not changed from previous years...
...assessed at $220,000, and the tax, which was up to $4,000 last year, was slated to more than double?to $8,300. "We see waste in the school system every day," she contends. "At 15 or more high schools, there's a dean for every grade, plus a head dean for the deans. At one school they had enough money to buy six electric typewriters, so they did?even though there was only one typist. Money is allotted for summer school mainly so more teachers can have jobs. And instead of teaching remedial reading, they teach backpacking...
...shape-up-or-ship-out policy that public schools cannot follow. Students are fined or assigned mandatory chores if they are tardy or cut class; vandalism, drug use and academic failure are grounds for expulsion. Students may come with low reading skills, but they must read at twelfth-grade level to graduate. Adams himself sometimes accosts students as they go home: "If you're not on the honor roll, you can't afford to walk out of school without any books...