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Riley even taught All-American defenseman Noah Welch when the latter was a seventh-grader at Catholic Memorial in West Roxbury...
AGES 6 to 7 DOES YOUR FIRST-GRADER...
Hepburn could handle it, because she never lost that almost comically intense belief in herself. She believed in others too, if they would just work hard. There was a streak of the schoolteacher in her, and a tough grader. One imagines her reading her death notices--all raves--as if they were test papers. "Twaddle!" she would write in the margin. "You can do better...
...much in class. But ebullient and with a sweet smile, she talked last fall of hoping to make the honor roll, of liking math. At home she trailed her mother Tanya around the kitchen, reading from homework assignments as Tanya cooked dinner. By this spring, however, the seventh-grader had ditched the uniform--"Wearing the same color every day wasn't doing it for me anymore"--was earning mostly Ds and had been suspended twice for fighting. The principal eventually taped Tanya's phone number under her computer keyboard because they talked so often. Tanya says her daughter was targeted...
...What do I say to the parents of a seventh or eighth grader? What is it that CRLS has to offer? I want to be able to say, ‘Come visit this year. It'll look the same next year when you send your child,’” school committee member Alice L. Turkel said...