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...even in middle-class suburbia -- is not what it used to be. With divorce commonplace, youngsters frequently careen back and forth between parents like shuttlecocks. "We used to send one report card home with each student and deal with one set of parents," recalls Kay Grady, a counselor at Hillview Elementary School in affluent Menlo Park, Calif. "Now we send two to two households and sometimes arrange for separate conferences." That is, if the parents have time. Single parents and two- earner couples are often just too fatigued at the end of the day to show much interest in open...
...with their choice of career. "I love my job," says Rochester's Pugliese. "In the classroom I can have an impact." A Carnegie Foundation survey of 22,000 teachers found that 77% are satisfied with their jobs. "You can make $2 million a year working at some corporation," says Hillview teacher Sue Krumbein. "But who really cares? When you teach, a lot of people care...
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