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Kids who quit school don't just suddenly drop out; it's more of a slow fade. Typically it begins in the ninth grade, if not earlier, often when life hits a particularly nasty patch and racking up credits in class no longer seems especially compelling or plausible. Ernestine Maisonet started fading in eighth grade, when the grandmother who had raised her died. "She was a woman who worked wonders," murmurs Maisonet, who says she doesn't know her mother and isn't close to her dad. After the death, her family of six siblings fell apart. Maisonet has lived...
...said. “I think there is a viable way to ensure that we have a substantial number of departmental courses while still fulfilling the intention of the report.” Professors also addressed the long-standing question yesterday of whether freshman seminars, which are all currently graded pass/fail, would count for general education credit.Concerned that his colleagues were “dissing” the freshman seminar program, Cabot Professor of American Literature Lawrence Buell encouraged professors to rescue the seminars from the “outer darkness of the Gen Ed template...
...YOURS, MR. SMILEYIt’s a fuck-the-world attitude that Jenkins has adopted only too well, lambasting everyone from the President to Matchbox 20. Somewhat surprisingly, though, the person to get the most heat is not Rob Thomas, but Jenkins’ sixth grade teacher. “I was just a kid with dyslexia and ADD and he was a teacher with a fairly low IQ,” says Jenkins. “He told me that he thought that I wouldn’t graduate high school and that like some other...
...film all the way through or painting all the way through. It was important to me to get at what I was trying to do from every different angle,” Salazar says.Her passion for the arts began early on, when she took a photography class in fifth grade.“I got really into it,” Salazar says. “I built a black room in my basement. I was really interested in the formal aspects of it.”Salazar thought her involvement in photography and the arts was over when...
...save the Jews.” Sarah K. Satinover ’08 said the assignment has been frustrating because of the volume of commentary on the class blog. “Everyone was interested in saying so much so that they’d get a good grade,” she said. Grade-grubbing aside, this assignment clearly breaks the mold of the standard Power-Point presentation. And as Satinover put it, “If you can’t talk about anything then you won’t be able to talk about anything...