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...sitting in my eighth-grade English class, reading 'The Wide Net' with it hidden behind my English grammar book. I was supposed to be diagramming sentences, but Miss Welty had my mind millions of miles away. I remember it so well because it was the first time in my life that I realized a person could write about people who talked like me, and that realization changed my life...
...state wanted more. In March, the Communist Party confined Liu to a hotel room for five days with renounced Falun Gong practitioners. They picked apart the spiritual movement's doctrine and blamed Liu, a 31-year-old grammar-school art teacher, for ruining her family. By the time the sessions ended, says Liu, "I realized I was thinking only of myself." She committed apostasy, signing a written pledge to "split from the evil cult Falun Gong and its heresies." These days, the party makes her lead similar sessions herself. Speaking in a carefully monitored meeting that includes two government officials...
...campaign at times resembles the excesses of the Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong. The government has launched a drive to secure 1 million children's signatures opposing Falun Gong. In the lakefront city of Hangzhou in eastern China, grammar-school students recently attended a lecture by their principal on the evils of the group. Afterward, students took turns facing their classmates to swear: "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in science." Eight-year-old Yu Xiaohong stunned his teachers by striding forward and declaring, "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in Jesus." The teachers...
...Much of the television coverage of the event and its aftermath verged on the morbidly obscene. The father's excruciating press conference; the pastor's nauseating one; the obligatory mindless interviews with friends and neighbors. Americans have so internalized the grammar and vocabulary of modern media that when something happens to them that's newsworthy, even if it's a tragedy beyond one's ken, the first thing they do is call a press conference...
School officials credit their success in part to their 97% average attendance rate, which in turn is boosted by classes that emphasize art, poetry and yoga along with arithmetic and grammar. "Unless you're fully engaging the mind and body of the children, they're not going to be as productive," says Kevin Sved, 34, the school's co-founder. Accelerated says it outperformed the community's other public schools by 270% on last year's standardized tests. "It's like a $20,000 private school without the tuition," says Mario Ortega, 37, a mortgage banker who transferred...