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...addition to forcing children to eat corndogs every day at lunch and teaching cursive to children who will never write with connected letters once they leave the blasted place, Ernest Gaullet Elementary has given the world and Dartboard another reason to hate elementary school. After overhearing a second grader who used the rather accurate word “gay” to describe his same-sex female parents, a teacher at the school scolded the boy and sent him to the principal’s office. A few days later, school administrators forced the child to come to school early...
North Star sixth-grader Oluyomi Ijandipe explains the appeal of Wish's program from a kid's perspective. "In a regular music class, you've gotta raise your hand," says the baby-faced B.B. King fan. "In this one, you're just hangin'." This could, of course, be an argument for sticking with regular music classes. Except that in most cases, there are no regular music classes. Sixty percent of students in grades K through 12 in the U.S. get no music at all in school, according to the Music Education Coalition, a group made up of instrument makers...
...older brother, Okechukwu Nwokocha ‘01, was a four-year letterman and tailback for the Crimson beginning in 1997. As his brother was thriving at Harvard, Murphy told the current Columbia back that he would recruit him when he was as young as a seventh-grader...
...working, there were battery problems. It wasn't software; it was really basic stuff." It also didn't help that these computers were being used by a bunch of energetic young adolescents. As Packer math teacher George Turner puts it, "There is no harder life than in a sixth-grader's backpack." One lesson the faculty learned fast was that if you're going to base your lesson plan on the computers, have a backup plan. If you don't, when one kid's laptop crashes, the whole class grinds to a halt...
...post opinions about the war in Iraq. Last year the school set up an electronic link with a laptop school on an Indian reservation in Alaska, and the kids swapped poems and pictures of themselves. "I've been sick for the past two days," chirps Annie, a Packer eighth-grader, "but instead of just doing nothing and waiting to get the assignments from my friends, I could get 'em all off the email and catch up without having a ton of homework to do when I get back to school." And kids are picking up computer skills along...