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...inattentive, distracted,? he recited. ?A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.? Hardy flipped to the last card in the pile, dated June 22, 1967, and continued. ?John has not been successful in completing his requirements to graduate. He will need to repeat 12th grade.? Hardy laid his old report cards on the table and addressed his now silent audience. ?At that point in my life, I never would have imagined that I would one day be reading this shameful report to all you here in Bali. Remember...
Harvard Business School (HBS) may amend its current policy of prohibiting students from disclosing their grades to potential employers, MBA Program Chair Richard S. Ruback announced in a letter to the student body last week.The school is considering a return to optional disclosure, under which students would have the choice of letting recruiters see their grades from HBS. The present non-disclosure practice has been in place since 1998.Any changes that HBS decides to implement would not affect students currently enrolled at the school, but would only apply to future classes, Ruback wrote.Ruback and HBS student leaders both said that...
Peyton nonetheless took up football--and everything else--with the same fervor he now displays at the line of scrimmage, where, before the snap, he shouts instructions at everyone but the cheerleaders. Cooper remembers the third grade, when Peyton's basketball coach told him to foul an opponent to stop the clock. Peyton kicked the kid in the gut. Archie recalls another youth hoops game, when Peyton told his coach, "The reason we lost this game tonight is because you don't know what you're doing." Then there was the time he dressed in a red ruffled shirt...
...truth, however, is that girls can be difficult. Starting with cliques in the sixth grade, gossip and “talking behind her back” are just the building blocks...
...Legacy of a Legend At a school function, I learned of the death of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, that 50 years later a white boy in Texas would speak her name reverently and express regret at her passing? Regina Donnell Azle, Texas...