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...might be a typical scene from a typical school, but Birkett--dressed in a black-checked bow tie and coordinating jacket--oversees Cambridge's only charter school...
Thursday night while they slept they had a number of items stolen, including their newly replaced Harvard IDs, two pairs of running shoes, a day planner and an Abercrombie & Fitch jacket...
...some kids have learned to take advantage of it. For many, the extent of their forethought is making plans for the weekend, and even those are subject to change at the last minute. They get jobs, not necessarily to save for college but to buy a $400 leather jacket. So many kids skip their homework that most teachers stop assigning more than 15 minutes' worth: ask too much, push too hard, and the students will give up, drop out, become a menace to society. We have to strike a balance, the adults say. We have to be reasonable. We want...
Detective Dave Dreher's sport jacket and slacks are gone. Tonight he's in uniform, badge and gun plainly visible, working the parking lots. "Oh, high school days," he sighs as he orbits the stadium grounds. "Hey, what's your name, and where do I know you from?" Dreher asks a kid lurking outside the field. "I think you know me from getting into trouble, little things," the boy says sheepishly...
...weekend, no juvenile matters, nobody arrested, nobody hurt, no traffic accidents, nobody locked up that I have to go interview, then that's a good morning. We're having a good morning." His loaded Smith & Wesson, his badge and his beeper are all hidden under his brown sports jacket, but he carries the school's ubiquitous power symbol, a walkie-talkie, and it will crackle and sputter plenty before the day is safely started...