Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some friends call him Buddha, and Soona has often called Vili "an old soul trapped in a young body." He has always seemed mature. In sixth grade, a couple of years ago, while classmates were writing poems that described themselves as lovers of "girls, baseball, ice cream...and MTV," Vili wrote that he was a "Lover of giving, faith, trust... Who likes to wear masks over his soul." He was just...
That is the Vili that Mary fell in love with. She had met him years before, in her second-grade class, and quickly noticed his talents. He had noticed her too, and he flirted with her throughout sixth grade. Kids get crushes on teachers all the time--and, of course, most are rebuffed--but Letourneau had entered a fragile period. In October 1995, her father, retired G.O.P. Congressman John Schmitz, had disclosed his terminal cancer. As Mary later told a psychiatrist, she felt he had died already. "She felt she died too," says Dr. Julie Tybor Moore. Her father...
...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...
...security feature, students' names and identification numbers will not be displayed with course and grade information, the brochure says...
Becella said she hopes that eventually the Web site will allow access to official transcripts--including grade point averages and transfer credits...