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...avoid future problems, Santana now has sheriffs on duty and a tip line kids can call. The wounded students have since recovered, and shared in a fund set up for them and the families of the two who died. Mari Gordon-Rayborn, whose son Randy was killed, attended in June what would have been his graduation. She wore his cap and gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bad A Boy? | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...Lillie Rayborn, 43, is already damp with sweat, trying to keep up with her rambunctious first-graders at Tunica's Rosa Fort Elementary School. "All right," she says firmly. "Yesterday we learned the letter l. Today we will learn the letter d." She hands out construction paper "bones." If the word on the "bone" begins with d, the child gets to "feed the dog" -- a large construction-paper hound with a hole for a mouth. The kids love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Eric, for example, has learned to draw a capital E, but cannot write his own name. He is far from the worst case that Rayborn has seen. Once, a child with Down syndrome was enrolled in her class. He was still in diapers and required frequent changing. "I had to run out and buy Pampers," she recalls. "He had never been disciplined. He acted like an animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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