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Some of the children live as far as six miles from school, but none had to walk. Their parents, who complained loudly about the suspension, drove the youngsters to class. Said Ninth-Grader Michelle Penkul, 15: "They shouldn't be making this much hassle over pot." Bus Driver Arsenault had a different view: "I did it because I am a mother and grandmother and concerned for these kids...
...children are accepted for enrollment, parents must sign a letter authorizing staff members to paddle students for continual offenses. (The letter explains: "Following the administering of the strokes, the staff will pray with your child, assuring him or her of their love.") Says Howard Riles, father of a sixth-grader: "What I hope is that when my daughter goes off to college, she'll have some character...
...third-grader was then asked why Kennedy was a good president. "I don't know. Do you know how he died...
...gets one when she's about a senior in high school, or maybe her first year in college if she drags her feet about it. Assuming Wayne and Cintra had a pretty normal education, when he was a college boy at Princeton, she was a seventh-up-to-tenth grader at her mother's day school...
...Economist George Stigler, 71, after a little chat with President Reagan in the Oval Office, was led into the briefing room for a few minutes with reporters. Someone half-heartedly asked the new Nobel laureate what he thought of Reaganomics. The professor, who is said to be a tough grader back home, lived up to his reputation, saying that he would not give the President an A at this point: "Maybe an incomplete...