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...sixth-grade teacher in California tells a girl in her class that she needs to work on her reading at home, not just in school. "Her mom came in the next day," the teacher says, "and started yelling at me that I had emotionally upset her child...
...perversely obnoxious kids that bully Bobby at school, the kind of kids that only exist in bad movies. Consequently, their behavior never seems real. They are never allowed to stray too far from the idea of what they are supposed to be, whether that is workaholic dad, passive mom, bratty kids...
While April talked to members of the Radcliffe Class of 1972, I talked to someone I knew a little better: my mom, Radcliffe Class of 1974. I learned that in her time, women were optimistic, confident, and successful, if not in their academic lives, then certainly in their social lives. They read books like How to Be an Assertive (Not an Aggressive) Woman in Life, in Love, and on the Job: A Total Guide to Self-Assertiveness, which outlined “new courtship patterns” for a new generation, giving women the right to ask men out, break...
...either had boyfriends or were dating people pretty much all of our Harvard careers,” my mom says of her group of friends. “Even if on a Saturday night you didn’t have anything to do, it didn’t feel like the end of the world at all because you knew that next Saturday you would.” Another set of girls took an alternate approach. The free love movement had hit parts of Radcliffe as early as 1970, when my mom remembers whispering with her friends about one girl...
Wrong. Let me school you to the game. When I told my mom and dad about this excursion, I gained some invaluable information. My mom informed me that Chucky used to grope the mothers at birthday parties, while my father’s immediate response was, “Do they still sell beer there...