Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LATE: "After a two-hour delay, Clinton stepped...onto a stage...'I didn't know his hair was that gray,' said second-grader Sam Melvin, 8. 'Or that his face was that red,' added classmate Kate Ferguson. --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel...
...many, the most painful aspect of television deprivation is the cultural ignorance it produces. "When I was younger, it was traumatizing," laments Bradley-Moore. "It so mattered. Every first grader had the latest on `Little House [on the Prairie]' except me. My vocabulary was behind everyone else's, and my teachers wondered if it was because I never watched TV. It made me feel weird; the last thing you want in first grade is to feel weird." An anonymous (afraid of being stigmatized?) Lowell House senior concurs. "When I was a little kid, [not watching television] was hard because that...
Tali Koss, an 11th grader at the Hebrew Academy, concurred. "We learned how nothing gets done...
...Favela, 10, a fifth-grader in Pacific Palisades, Calif., got the Monica Lewinsky story on MTV news. "They said this lady accused Clinton of a sex scandal, like Paula Jones. I was shocked." Well, what exactly is the President accused of, Max? "He, like, raped a woman." Unsure of his answer, he confers with his friend Josh. "A sex scandal," Max now clarifies. "Having sex with a lady, and she comes back later and accuses him. Now he's in big trouble...
...they just leave the President alone?" That's the question Sherman Oaks fourth-grader Cassini Quinones asks. "She says he seems to be a nice man, and the world is running O.K., and isn't he doing his job?" says her father Adolfo. "This comes from a nine-year-old! Children are very smart. She wanted to know what allegations are. I explained that it's like when your brother says something about you is true, but we don't have proof...