Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pair of scissors was subsequently released by the juvenile court and returned to the same school. The judge, it seems, felt that the boy had extenuating emotional problems stemming from a scar on his face. And in a cause celebre in Providence, a teacher attempting to restrain a sixth-grade student from punching and choking a classmate whacked the offender on the leg with a blackboard pointer. The school administration took action-against the teacher. The assailant went free...
...Secretary of Defense has approved the Army's request to extend transportation and other benefits currently denied soldiers in Grade E-4 and below to those ranks who are posted in Europe. I am confident that the Congress will approve and fund this extension of benefits during the coming year...
...Live-Life-to-the-Full Theory. Look at it this way: in five years you won't remember your grade in whatever course you're cramming for. Your mother might--but you won't. And neither will your roommate, your tutor, or whoever's teaching the course. What you will remember is a fantastic evening's entertainment. So what are you waiting for? You never know, you might be missing a once-in-a-lifetime experience...
...time he was 12, Ed had pretty much accepted that this was the way things were going to be. Academics became more important to him and he became a good student. Third grade had been a real setback because he had to learn to read Braille, forcing him to stay back a year in school, but he was able to learn quickly and started to excel. An even greater accomplishment, however, was learning to walk with a cane when he was 14. He spent two summers learning to walk around a city by himself and learning how to cook...
Panarese's squash career dates back to a seventh grade beginning at Milton Academy, where he also tried his hand at tennis, baseball and soccer. Milton squash was pretty informal and, since his arrival at Hemenway gym, Mark has improved his game tremendously...