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Ford grew up in a disciplined household, with a set time for homework and an early bedtime. The civil-rights views of his father Kent greatly influenced him. Ford is proud of being named after Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence hero, though he eventually chose to be known as just Lumumba--because, says his half-sister Cindy Fontenot, "Patrice sounded girlish to him." Says Fontenot, 34, a human-resources professional: "He was always very mature, someone to lean on because he was so strong but very sensitive...
...Philadelphia largely in terms of scores, the families in the schools will grade it by their own standards. Tanya Denmark, who is sending her third child through Shoemaker Middle School in West Philadelphia, regularly attends parent meetings, often checks in with teachers and enforces strict rules at home about homework and uniforms. With her daughter Shaliah, 12, about to enter seventh grade, Denmark closely followed news reports on Chancellor Beacon Academies, the private company designated to take over her neighborhood school. Shaliah had been attending a charter school that Denmark says turned her off with its use of uncertified teachers...
...hope, of course, is that Chancellor Beacon's efforts will translate into academic gains for Shaliah, a bubbly Bs-and-Cs student, as well as for the Shoemaker pupils performing below grade level, whom Chancellor Beacon plans to target aggressively with personalized assignments and weekly monitoring of classwork and homework. The Denmarks like this cautious approach but also have some immediate concerns. Mom Tanya wants new textbooks; the ones Shaliah has are torn and marked up, and she's stillwaiting for a science book. Denmark would also like to see the discipline code strictly enforced in the sprawling, sometimes rowdy...
Lives are long things, with ample time for later graduate school, longer hours, career changes, new hobbies and—as I assure my mother—a late-blooming love of medicine. Thirty years of idleness is probably bad, but with an average of 50 homework-free years ahead, the next 10 are not required to contain extreme institutionalized striving...
...don’t mind that much. Sometimes we get more business. A lot of people come by on Saturday. But there’s not really a pattern. It’s hard to predict. This Saturday night I was a big nerd. I had a lot of homework. I was saying to my co-staffer how it’s nice to staff on Saturday because you have an excuse to do work. You’re down there for 12 hours—you’ve got nothing else...