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City councillors forwarded various suggestions to Healy and his staff. Kenneth E. Reeves '72 asked that the city keep track of the units it is losing, while Henrietta Davis suggested that the city track its progress in its yearly reports...
...other preoccupation, keeping students in school, the teachers know how much pressure the administration is under. Last year Webster Groves received $150,000 in extra funds from Missouri's A-Plus program, whose top goal is to reduce the dropout rate. Webster's rate has declined from 3.9% to 1.3% over the past five years, but needs to stay down to keep the state funds flowing. So the school has compiled a list of 150 students considered highly "at risk" of quitting, and is targeting them for extra attention. Everyone agrees that this effort is admirable--and necessary, given...
...year ago, Leigh began feeling "down in the dumps." A diligent student, she stopped doing her homework and, instead, slept or cried away her evenings. She drifted from her childhood friends and started hanging out with an older crowd. "It was total detachment," recalls her mother Joan. "We'd keep wondering if the old Leigh was still in there." And nothing--not favorite activities like shopping at the mall or sessions with a therapist--would coax...
...make a threat to kill a teacher? Do you get suspended or expelled?" He says he likes to play mind games and was just curious, but school officials were quick to take action. They immediately called Matt's psychiatrist and his mother and asked his teachers to keep an eye on him. An administrator told him, Matt says, "If I threaten anyone or make any 'I'm going to kill myself' statements, I would be suspended with no questions asked until I could get a doctor's note...
...family room contains--just barely--about one-ninth of the Webster Groves High School student body. Suddenly an overhead projector flips on, two amplified acoustic guitars chime in and 160 youthful voices scream, "Here's a story! It's sad but true! About a girl that I once knew!... Keep away from Runaround...