Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swansea, Mass., a boy suffering from AIDS was allowed to attend his eighth-grade class earlier this month, and only half a dozen of the school's 630 students were kept home by parents. But many parents bitterly railed against "the fancy talk" of experts who use vague terms like "shared bodily fluids" and speak of "probabilities" and "percentages" instead of giving yes or no answers...
Despite the professors' abilities as teachers, some students say they are drawn to these scholars' courses because of their relatively light workloads. For example, Fleming's courses commonly feature a midterm which does not count unless it boosts one's final grade. Fleming justifies his policy, saying he views the midterm as a "learning exercise...
Despite the professors' abilities as teachers, some students say they are drawn to these scholars' courses because of their relatively light workloads. For example, Fleming's courses commonly feature a midterm which does not count unless it boosts one's final grade. Fleming justifies his policy, saying he views the midterm as a "learning exercise...
...Said Chris Johnson, 12: "He really told it to us." Kathy Elliott, who normally teaches the seventh-grade class at the Caddo school, commented, "I didn't think he would be that good, but he really impressed me. He was down-to-earth and had a fantastic sense of humor." Principal Lel McCullough liked the way Bennett kept his students' attention from wandering. Said she: "I'd hire...
Honor Student Ryan White, 13, began seventh grade last week. But he did not get on a yellow bus to travel the five miles to the Western Middle School near Kokomo, Ind. For Ryan, classroom is his bedroom, where he tries to hear teachers and speak to fellow pupils via a telephone hookup. Ryan is a hemophiliac who contracted acquired immunodeficiency syndrome last winter through a blood transfusion. Although Indiana state health officials say that students with AIDS can attend school as long as their condition does not threaten others, District Superintendent of Schools J.O. Smith decided to bar Ryan...