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...when she heard. She was in her tenth grade math class on Nov. 22, 1963 when a voice over the loud-speaker announced that President John F. Kennedy '40 had been assassinated. Her teacher, who at the beginning of the term had joked that the class would be spared homework "only if the President were shot," assigned homework nonetheless...
...Yale (to name a few of the schools) titled "Ebonics Test." The forward begins with the explanation, "A friend of mine has an 18 year-old son named Leroy. He attends Oakland High School where they teach Ebonics as a second language. Last week he was given a homework assignment. All he had to do was use each of the following words in a sentence...
This piece of filth is circulating in tightly-knit, highly-privileged circles, and is further establishing the opposition between Us and Them. The outright insults to black people are most insidious. To begin with, Leroy is doing his homework (notice that it's not Lawrence, Buffy, Jane or Joe) and all he has to do is vocab--as a senior in high school. But beyond this, notice the constant subject of prison, cheating and stupidity among other things...
...With the Cambridge schooling she could really educate her mind, really move her mind the way it's supposed to move. Here she comes home from school and finishes her homework in 45 minutes...
...home-team spirit is that I have less time now at Harvard to watch football than I did in high school. Sunday afternoons were usually devoted to popcorn and the Patriots. Now, they're earmarked, more often than not, for sleep or the contemplation (but never completion) of my homework assignments. I have learned to bookmark the ESPN SportsZone Web Page and "reload" every 20 minutes during the game to find out the latest score. Dinner-table boasting or teeth-gnashing has replaced reading the Globe's sports section from cover to cover. Harvard makes much of what is going...