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...This wasn't Karr's first shot at teaching Thai kids. Saint Joseph's Convent, an elite elementary and high school a short drive from the Christian college - where parents who drive late-model BMWs shell out $7,400 a semester to get their daughters educated - had hired Karr for a two- or three- week trial period earlier this year as a grade-school English teacher. "We were just seeing if he passed our standards," a senior school official who declined to be identified told TIME. "He didn't, so I fired him." She recalled that officials at Bangkok Christian...
...many foreigners flout the rule, and school administrators, eager for the cachet that comes with expatriate instructors, tend to turn a blind eye. Thailand is, however, a favored playground of globetrotting drifters. "You never really know who you're talking to in Bangkok," says an Australian teacher in St. Joseph's English immersion program who met Karr during his brief tenure there. "We've all got a past...
...year extension has been favored by veteran committee members Alfred B. Fantini and Joseph G. Grassi. They co-authored a letter in The Cambridge Chronicle last month stating their desire to give Fowler-Finn an additional year. Though dependent on the terms of the new contract, the result of a one-year extension is that the debate over a long-term extension of Fowler-Finn’s tenure will likely be replayed next summer, a few months before an election in which the School Committee members and the mayor are all up for reelection...
...Three years later Huckabee and state Surgeon General Joseph Thompson announced that child obesity, while still a big fat problem, no longer appears to be on the rise in Arkansas. Reams of data collected from 371,082 students in some 1,100 schools showed that the number of students in the overweight category was holding steady or dropping slightly from 20.9% in the 2003-04 school year to 20.4% last school year. "This is not the destination, this is a turning point," said Huckabee, who praised Arkansas parents for having "overwhelmingly responded positively" to the feedback from schools...
...Kistulinec Warren, New Jersey, U.S. It is not often that one is confronted with mortality in such stark terms. I recently lost my father and then became a grandfather within a month of his passing. Time is so fleeting and so precious. I pray Kinsley has a speedy recovery. Joseph Bichler Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Kinsley's essay is a masterpiece of good writing, humor and the human side of medicine. It's rare to find someone who can express a patient's feelings without resorting to melodrama and at the same time provide a coherent explanation of a disease...