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Bridges said she was one of six students who passed a mandatory test to enter an all-white elementary school as a first-grader, following a court order to integrate New Orleans public schools...
After she spoke about her second-grade teacher, who was reluctant to teach a black girl, a second-grader in the audience commented that he too had a mean teacher...
...that bleak assessment is right, the task of making peace will fall to the next generation. What do the children think? Mariana, the Zeidans' fourth-grader, says, "If I said I don't get scared by the tanks, I would be lying. But I believe there will be peace, and a state for the Israelis and a state for the Palestinians." Neta, the Simons' 5-year-old, recently asked her mom if the Palestinian gunmen she was watching on TV had children. Orly said they did. "I want to look them in the eyes," said Neta. The way her mother...
...their sexual activities. Reliable statistics on sex are always hard to pin down, especially when the question is, "Did you get drunk and have a one-night stand?" But health educators at high schools are concerned by the stories they are hearing from students like Devon, a ninth-grader from Richmond, Va. Girls drink, she says, so they can "do stupid slutty things and hook up with as many guys as they want...
DIED. BRITTANIE CECIL, 13, eighth-grader struck in the head with a puck while watching a National Hockey League game, the first such fan fatality in the league's history; two days before her 14th birthday; in Columbus, Ohio. An artery to her brain was damaged, doctors later determined, when the puck caused her head to snap back...