Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth grade, when his teacher asked the class what would happen in the fall of 1960, DiCara jumped up and predicted that John F. Kennedy would be elected President...
...this is not DiCara's first election. He has been a political animal ever since his arrival at Boston Latin School, where he eventually won what he considers his most important election-Senior Class President. "I think he'd been campaigning since he got there in seventh grade," one classmate said Thursday...
...disparity between their perception and that of their superiors becomes too glaring, when they are called upon to become accessories to crimes of colonialism and war, when the CIA induced redbaiting within the American community becomes unbearable, when through various bureaucratic ruses and maneuvers they are denied their low-grade security and advancements...
...years ago, the Collegiate School, a twelve-year day school in Manhattan, saw 75 per cent of its eighth grade go away to school. Last year, only four out of 45 decided to leave Collegiate for boarding school...
Jane Van Houten told much the same story about her daughter Leslie, a Camp Fire Girl, who took up the sousaphone in the sixth grade, was a homecoming princess at Monrovia High School. She even showed a picture of Leslie in her Halloween ballerina costume. "It was an outfit with a pink tutu," said Mrs. Van Houten, "and she got sick and couldn't go out on Halloween, so she wore it all the time she was in bed." In the summer of 1968, when she was 19, Leslie phoned her mother "to say that she was going...