Word: prepped
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...Change the System. Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. The only real long-term answer to inequality is to provide a better educational system for the poor, and I mean really better: new facilities, longer school days and school years, the best college-prep classes (to lure scholars from the whiter parts of town), and significant salary bonuses for teachers who choose the toughest neighborhoods, for starters. This would require nothing less than a revolution in public education. We would have to stop funding public schools with local property taxes. The states should finance the system, spending...
...Charter School’s drumline was also truly engaging. Staged as a battle between the junior high school students and three members of THUD, this piece was the only one featuring a guest performance. The added variety greatly bolstered the show’s entertainment value. The Roxbury Prep students played on their drum pads, buckets and garbage pans extremely well, with a level of coordination that exceeded that of most campus performing art groups. Their great skill suggested that they could have performed a more intricate and complicated piece.“Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24...
...damn about grades,” Fujimoto said. “I came from an immigrant family and had no background in a lot of the subjects I was studying. At high school, they never even taught us the Periodic Table, and there I was, competing with fellows from prep schools who had already taken these things. My A’s in science were balanced by my C’s in everything else, but graduating with honors meant nothing to me then...
...feeder school is Groton School, a Massachusetts prep school...
...Wang’s parents are Chinese immigrants who came to America to complete their masters degrees. While Wang characterizes them as pretty hands-off, they encouraged her in to get a 4.0 in school and sent her to SAT prep, which she took as a part of her supplementary Chinese-language school in the eighth grade and then culminated in a Princeton Review course the summer before her junior year...