Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line has swelled out the door of the drop-off room, and, like a grade-school teacher on a field trip, Milstein is prodding and berating the disoriented and disorganized students to stay in line and have their applications in numerical order...
...responsive student government" and "better student services and public spaces." Most of the rights themselves are self-evident and non-controversial, since who would argue that student's should not have a safe campus or against gender equality? Hyman and Rawlins neglected the issues most important to students, like grade posting, better UHS service and improved MAC facilities...
...crack pipe. I have not used other drugs, and I don't plan to. Aside from the occasional roll through a stop sign, I am a law-abiding citizen. As I write these words, I have this sense of shame that makes me hope that my first-grade teacher and my best friend's parents don't read this issue of TIME. They still think I'm a good kid. Fortunately, my mother didn't know about my behavior until I had more or less turned out all right...
Among kids who admit they can't control their pot smoking, trouble at home often lurks in the background. Even in Chicago's relatively tranquil North Shore, dysfunction blooms in a thousand ways. Drew, for instance, a thoughtful 16-year-old junior who began getting high in the eighth grade, has had trouble handling marijuana from the start. He claims that his absent father once had a substance-abuse problem. By the ninth grade, he says, "my priorities were totally screwed up. I didn't even buy the books I needed. I was selling pot in the boys' room...
...might be thinking, the commercial still did some good for Molly: she must have the lowest cholesterol count in the entire sixth grade. I wouldn't know about that. One of the many pleasant characteristics of my conversations with Molly is that she never talks about cholesterol...