Word: school
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard instructor of my acquaintance tells a good anecdote about the contrast between the American and the European educational philosophies. One year he noticed that a high school student in the summer school electronics course he was teaching was doing poorly, and he and the teaching fellow were discussing why this might be. Perhaps, they suggested, he was not really interested in the material and was attending summer school only because his parents had made him. Perhaps he was having trouble adapting to being so far from home. That year the co-instructor for the course happened...
...members say they hope to apply the same successful techniques to pass a bill that would allow immigrants to vote in school committee elections...
...Even if immigrants are not citizens, they still have children in the school system and should be able to influence the decisions," Lim says...
...School Committee supported the measure by a five-to-two vote, which Lim says shows a degree of dissent...
Then my friend showed me an image that I will never forget--one less personal but far more effective in showing exactly what school spirit is about...