Word: schooldays
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...typical undergraduate schedule is a switch for Riegel. At PCS, she went to class about two days a week and her limited schoolday was the norm...
These are not performing arts students; they are fifth and sixth graders, for whom dance class isn't just the last hour of their schoolday. As participants in Citystep, a program that brings undergraduate dancers into four Cambridge public schools to teach children to dance, these children are learning not just teamwork but also a new mode of communication--movement...
...figure behind a grille. "I disobeyed my parents"; "1 told a lie"; "I said a bad word." The ritual was required. Without it one would not be permitted to reach the bright day of his first Holy Communion. Later, if one went on in parochial school, it became a schoolday habit: the herd march into the pews for an afternoon of fidgeting or perhaps nervously inventing sins, waiting for one's turn in the dark confessional and the familiar-if not quite inevitable-"three Our Fathers; three Hail Marys." Sometimes the occasion happened to coincide with real sorrow...
...left only a dry bed near the school and the cathedral. Apparently an underground stream continued to flow beneath the old river bed. eroding the soil and rock to form a natural tunnel that finally collapsed. One consolation was that the crash came on a Saturday; on a schoolday the death toll might have run into hundreds...
...After questioning 998 Cincinnati schoolchildren on their TV-watching habits, Professor Walter Clarke of Xavier University had some disquieting news to report. The average 12-and 13-year-old, he found, spends 3.7 hours every schoolday before the screen. Over a week, he is apt to consume as much as 30 hours-five more than he spends in school...