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While Cory finds these sources helpful, he also keeps up on the thinking of other scholars: Son David, 5, a Montessori school pupil, and Daughter Caroline, 7, who each morning gets a ride on the back of Daddy's bicycle to Manhattan's racially integrated Public School 9. "Their kid's-eye insight," says Cory, "can be as valuable as any expert's opinion...
...that children put on museums and public libraries. When the stagger system begins at the high school next July, it should keep down the number of idle, trouble-prone teenagers who tend to congregate on the streets during the warm months. Says Thomas Mandeville, father of a Valley View pupil: "The kids used to get bored with summer and restless with the long school year. Breaking it up is good for them. It's good for us too." Most instructors have willingly given up their usual summer vacations or moonlighting jobs for the chance to earn twelve weeks worth...
...Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism that vex his schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart murmur, which requires prolonged and restful treatment...
Challenge to the System. The decision climaxed a three-year court battle begun in the name of John Serrano Jr., a twelve-year-old pupil, by a group of Los Angeles parents who challenged the state's property-tax system. (Their suit was filed by Derrick Bell, now Harvard University's first black law professor.) The system they challenged fairly well represents the pattern of educational financing in most states. About 56% of California's school funds come from property taxes raised at the local level, while the state kicks in about 35% (most of the balance...
Mahmoud Slieman Zak, 15, sat in the shade of an old building beside the highway that bisects the strip and gossiped idly with a friend. He was an indifferent pupil in school and wanted only to become a fulltime member of the Palestinian guerrillas for whom he had already been on eleven grenade-tossing missions. That morning Mahmoud fondled a grenade, wondering whether a target would present itself...