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Nick Nolte plays a burned-out social studies teacher. He looks like he has been taking eating lessons from Gerard Depardeau, and talks like a graduate from the Wolfman Jack College of Elocution, altogether appearing more fit to push a broom than a pencil. Nolte is supposedly the best teacher at JFK, and that is just the beginning of the school's problems. JFK is so bad that it is being sued by a former student for failing to fail him, and it has hired the best-looking legal help money can buy in the form of JoBeth Williams. Williams...
...appearance, he seems more comfortable with his ceremonial and administrative duties than at deciding cases. At the court's weekly conferences, he sometimes strikes other Justices as ill prepared and indecisive. When Burger changed his vote repeatedly in one case, Justice Byron White reportedly threw down his pencil and declared, "Jesus Christ, here we go again...
Other experts complain that the first-grade curriculum has already been pushed down into kindergarten, where pencils and workbooks now claim ever more space beside crayons and building blocks. Says Principal Arwood: "There are some children who are ready for paper-and-pencil activities in kindergarten. There are many who are not. We have a lot of social problems with kids who aren't up to those things." Bertha Campbell, head of the bureau of child development at the New York State department of education, says that demanding kindergartens create too much stress for the youngsters and can have...
Certainly, the council can benefit from a number of changes. Perhaps most problematic has been the tendency for many representatives to lose touch with the students they represent. Students this week should take care to pencil in the names of those who are most likely to work not only on the council floor, but also back in their Houses...
...treasure hunters both more scientific and more successful. Where once these undersea detectives took a wild plunge with ancient charts and a hunch, the modern salvage team can reduce the search area to the site of a small lake, and hunt for pieces of gold no bigger than a pencil eraser...