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Horace Mann's run-a-thon to raise money for the victims is among the thousands of ways that schools across the nation are coping with the stress of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath. In Tallahassee, Fla., first-graders at Hartsfield Elementary School drew pictures for the President--and gave advice. "Dear George Bush," wrote Ian Pitts. "It's O.K. if you breate [sic] through grey smoke. But if black smokes gets in your lungs you will die." At the Colin Powell Academy for Success in Long Beach, Calif., students wrote to the Secretary of State. "I think...
...Fifth-grader Dylan Samson, 10, attended P.S. 89, a school near the Twin Towers; now students from that school and P.S. 150 are sharing facilities at P.S. 3. "It's just really crammed in and hard there," says Dylan. "You're with such a big class. It's very noisy. I can barely hear myself think. They don't even have soap in the bathrooms. It makes me feel kind of a little crazy." Says artist Sharon Sprague, Dylan's mother: "Some classes don't have tables or desks. The kids are doing their work on the floor...
Vanessa Smith, the principal of Dorchester Elementary School in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., had a week to prepare her students for the return of a fifth-grader who lost her father. Dorchester's teachers set about making discussions of death as age appropriate as possible. Kindergartners talked about dogs and cats they've buried; older children wrote essays about what they would have done in a hijacked plane. All week long the school's students were eerily quiet; teachers must have missed a little rowdiness. "It was as if by being incredibly well behaved, good things would start to happen," says...
...Among them: the Fayetteville, Ga., school with 45 kindergartners in one room; the school administrators in Wheaton, Ill., who were so confused over what to do with Sue McCallum's boy that they put him in both remedial and gifted classes; the Glendale, Calif., school where Robert Phillipps' fifth-grader Bill saw too many fistfights...
...Which, in the end, is actually a good thing. As scary as it seems to conceive of admission decisions hinging on an officer's personal politics or mood, there is something comforting about the randomness of it all. It makes signing up one's third grader for violin, judo and Boy Scouts suddenly seem senseless. Or hiring a $20,000 college consultant to help package your child. Or doing anything other than relaxing and letting your child pursue what he or she actually wants to do - even if that means going off to join the circus...