Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What exactly does a normal child look like? We've long since passed the time when childhood was an ungraded test--take your time, build your forts, play your games, the clock does not start until high school, maybe college. We give homework in first grade now. We're very busy people. And your parents will do anything, just anything, to help you get ahead...
...school swim team. "I get my studying done at school during study hall," he says. "When I get home, I can do other things, like play sports or hang out." Nathan, who wants someday to be an aeronautical engineer, formed good study habits in fourth grade when a teacher, as he remembers, "used to pile on the work. I started to get stuff done then...
...holidays are brutal," says Flo Mondanaro, a third-grade teacher in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., who is trying to curb an expensive Beanie Baby craze in her classroom. "But the issue of kids' understanding the value of a dollar comes up year round...
...message of entrepreneurship outside the family, offering seminars at schools and encouraging local children to buy into her business at $1 a share. "The most financial education most of these kids will ever get anywhere else is a half-hour field trip to the stock exchange in 12th grade," Hughes says. "I'm trying to help them understand that even a small investment is better than nothing...
...movies tend to remind us of being in sixth grade again," says Frank Coraci, director of The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy--and, like Sandler-film screenwriter Tim Herlihy, a pal of the star's since they were all at New York University a decade ago. That's exactly right. The films are full of preadolescent aggression, exaggerated for laughs. In Billy Madison, Sandler gets his kicks by leaving a bag of flaming feces at a neighbor's door, saying the F word in a roomful of first-graders, mocking a stuttering boy. As a clumsy hockey player in Happy...