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...mostly self-supporting: 85% of the $2 million program comes from parents' fees. "Schools should be a community hub," says fourth-grade teacher Darlene Shaw. In three decades at Sycamore Hills, she has witnessed profound change. "Out of my 23 students today, only one has a stay-at-home mom," she said. "Without consistent, quality day care, kids flounder. And for kids dealing with divorce and single-parent families, school is their stability when things are going crazy at home...
...before the grand jury, usually it's I who goes to her and says, "You want to talk about what's going on in the news?" But this time it was Bill who went to her and said, "You want to talk about what's going on with your mom?" He sat down and talked...
...Brandon (Brendan Sexton Jr.), the juvenile delinquent who is the only boy with an interest in her, demonstrates it by threatening rape. When she responds in kind to a spitball attack, she almost puts a teacher's eye out. Things are scarcely better at home: Dad is passive, Mom is aggressive; her elder brother is a computer nerd and the leader of a hopeless garage band; her little sister is a tattletale in a tutu, meanly waltzing off with such love as can survive in the cold climate of split-level suburbia...
...trunk or forced him to smoke so many cigarettes that he vomited, I would not be at all surprised if he turned into a rebellious, hard-drinking hell raiser. Maybe the Rev. Billy Graham should have been home more often to discuss intelligent parenting skills with Mom Ruth. KATHY COUGHLIN Longwood, Florida...
...scathing article "fly till i die" was right on the money. What a heroic indictment of child exploitation. Young Jessica had absolutely no freedom of choice regarding her right to life, liberty or the pursuit of a normal education. Most of her teachings came from her self-appointed guru mom Lisa Hathaway, who, in a supposed quest to give her daughter freedom, imbued Jessica with Hathaway's own airhead philosophy. No wonder the kid wanted to fly! It makes no sense for Hathaway to call a nose dive to the ground a "state of joy." CYNTHIA HEBNER Wyckoff, New Jersey...