Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course and grade information on the Web site will be updated weekly and even more frequently during peak processing times--like the end of a term--according to a brochure included in the mailing...
...children killing children: the school slaying in Arkansas, where two 14-year-old boys shot their classmates because they were bitter about romantic rejection, and the most recent case of Andrew Wurst in north-west Pennsylvania. Wurst, a 14-year-old middle school student, walked into the eighth-grade graduation dance, shot and killed a chaperoning science teacher and wounded three others. He is currently being charged as an adult, with criminal homicide, three counts each of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment and numerous gun and drug charges...
When Wurst showed up at that eighth-grade graduation dance, he wasn't acting as an adult. He was acting like a copycat, just coming out of that last stage of childish imitation when young people like to copy everything that people older and (supposedly) cooler do. The two Arkansas boys were just acting the way they have seen America treat women: If she doesn't do what you say, strike her down. Violence against women is frowned upon in this country, but it is not considered important enough for more than a slap on the wrist. Take Back...
...Gautam, in the movie the "brain" takes wood shop because he thinks it will be an easy "A" and he wants to maintain his high grade point average. Have you ever taken shop...
...only way to alleviate this damage is to practice being accurate judges of our own abilities again, deciding how well we did on that paper without changing our minds after we get it back with a grade. We have to know when we've done a good job without relying on someone else to validate us. If we don't know how to do that, we're in trouble; ultimately, we are the only ones who will care...