Word: kiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picketed the offices of Colorado's U.S. Senators Wayne Allard and Ben Nighthorse Campbell after they voted to keep background checks at gun shows voluntary; and he's joined the Bell Campaign, a group that lobbies against gun violence. "There's something wrong with a country when a kid can get a gun so easily and shoot that gun into the face of another kid, like my child," says Mauser. "Unfortunately it looks like it's going to take a lot more of these tragedies for real change to occur...
...sixth-grade math instructor in Atlanta, left the profession in disgust over what he felt was rampant cheating. He estimates that as many as 15% of his incoming students had inflated test scores because of improper help from teachers, such as telling students to "sit next to the smart kid" during testing. Last year 40 cases of educator cheating were brought before Georgia's standards commission, compared with only three the previous year. The state of Texas is currently investigating 38 schools because of a high number of erasures on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. That crackdown follows...
...would be nice if we could always avoid showing evil people on our covers. "It's not our tendency to sensationalize crime or do covers on the crime of the week," says editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine. "Sometimes, however, a shocking picture--of a wartime execution, a brutality, a kid with a gun--along with an analysis of the tale behind it serves to focus our eyes on things we would prefer to ignore but instead should try to understand. I think it is worth the pain if it forces us to confront the issues of guns and violence...
This story is not so much about kids seeking glory as it is about grownups not looking and seeing, about people who preferred to sugarcoat rather than confront reality. We're likely to get letters from people saying they had to hide the issue from their children. I understand. Some of us may be hiding it from our own little kids as well. But I don't think we should hide the shocking images and stories from ourselves. The concept of a kid in a school cafeteria with a gun is one that should disquiet...
Fortunately for parents, most kids build their lives around friendships and understand sharing in a way that many grownups have forgotten. The holidays are an ideal time for all of us to remember what we receive by giving--not just to friends and relatives but also to those less fortunate. Many churches and charities put up "angel trees," where a child can donate a gift earmarked for a specific needy kid. Your child will have good ideas about what a kid his age would want; let him choose and wrap a gift to donate. In lieu of a teacher gift...