Word: grader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kathlynn Jacobs, a 24-year veteran of the Baltimore public schools, vividly remembers one gangly, precocious first-grader, who had been in day care since she was a baby. Both her parents worked, and her life had been rigidly scheduled to accommodate them. "She was the smartest one in the class," says Jacobs, "and she was having a hard day." Jacobs asked her what was wrong. "I'm tired of school," replied the world-weary seven-year-old. "I've been to school all my life...
Bush's running mate has avoided the gong for now, but Quayle's early response to questions about his military service and other matters was wobbly and defensive, like a fifth-grader trying to explain his missing arithmetic homework. When reporters accosted him at his Virginia home while he was emptying garbage, Quayle reacted with evident anger ("I'm getting a little bit indignant about one bum rap after another . . .") but sounded petulant rather than persuasive. His self-confidence has grown since then, though his overeager, puppet-like demeanor still reminds some critics of Howdy Doody...
Bianca's classmates say they want to be engineers, teachers, scientists, nurses, football players, policemen. A fourth-grader named Erica writes in her journal, "When I grow up I will get married and be an engineer because I have to study some science and math and be a doctor or a teacher and for my children to have school and clothes and food and strong and healthy...
After a 7 a.m. breakfast of bacon rolled in a singed tortilla, John David is ready to leave for school. Dressed stylishly in a blue-striped button-down shirt, blue sweater, wide-pocket gray jeans and Nike sneakers, the sixth- grader hops up into the cab of his father's pickup truck for the ten-minute ride to Bedichek Middle School, where a majority of the 1,040 students are Anglo. After school, John David takes a city bus home...
...morning of June 24, Tenth-Grader Dmitri Predkov, 17, stood up to answer a question in his history class at Moscow's Middle School No. 734. The question: "Is perestroika ((Gorbachev's economic and social reforms)) a natural stage in the development of Soviet socialism?" Dmitri's answer: No, it is not. He added the tart opinion that some people say otherwise "only because Gorbachev is head of our party." A classmate, looking sporty in a black leather tie, was equally bold in discussing the loosening constraints on % Soviet citizens. People of all stripes, "even fascists," he insisted, should have...