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When Heather Gillman, a normally reserved junior at Ponce de Leon High School in the Florida Panhandle, found out that her openly lesbian cousin, a ninth grader, had been suspended, along with 10 other students, for expressing support of a lesbian senior who claimed to have been harassed, the straight 17-year-old was outraged. Gillman responded to the suspensions - and the claim that the students had committed "illegal organizing" - by wearing a rainbow T-shirt and her cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people...
...Schroeder was "born green," according to her mother Angela, and she takes that environmental enthusiasm to class with her at the Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, N.J. The 12-year-old has been a driving force in greening her school since she was a fourth-grader, pushing teachers and classmates alike to cut waste and use less energy. But what really motivates kids--especially the sort of achievers who attend an exemplary private school like Oak Knoll--is a little competition. So when Schroeder and her classmates found out about a website launched last year that...
...part of the Leverett community,” said Brandt, a graduate student in the history of American civilization. “There’s a lot to learn, but I’ve got a great teacher.” Shapiro and her son Robert, a second-grader who Shapiro said grew up in the House and thinks of himself as “junior resident dean of Leverett,” will continue to live nearby. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...told police that he got the idea from news reports and was only kidding. Another 11-year-old, in Phoenix was arrested after threatening to shoot a teacher's tape player and then the teacher. He apparently did not like the teacher's "obnoxious music." Elizabeth Bush, the eighth-grader in Williamsport, Pa., who dreamed of becoming either a human-rights activist or a nun, shot the head cheerleader in the cafeteria. "No one thought I would go through with this," she yelled as she fired...
Most recently she was leading life as a grownup, working for an insurance company and making plans to study psychology in grad school. But many remember Vicki Van Meter as the brave sixth-grader beaming from the cockpit of her single-engine Cessna 172--the kid who in 1993 became the youngest girl to fly across the U.S. and, later, across the Atlantic to Scotland. Van Meter, who spent two years in Moldova in the Peace Corps, suffered from depression and died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound...