Word: schoolwork
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...story is told as a grab bag of gleanings from Teacher Barrett's mailbox, blackboard, wastebasket and students' schoolwork. Teachers chuckle in recognition at the memos Miss Barrett receives, such as one beginning: "Please disregard the following," and at the kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate...
...immoral home with the tax payer's dollar." To stem Philadelphia's juvenile crime (up 27% last year), Judge Stout, who is married but childless, advocates taking children away from relief homes and raising them in public dormitories where they can be urged to buckle down to schoolwork...
These children would be those who have not yet been in trouble with the police, but who may soon join a gang. PBH workers will try to divert these youngsters' energies from gangs and vandalism to athletics and schoolwork...
...Wyeth clan, almost everybody paints but the dogs, and Jamie started early. Says he: "I'd come home from a movie and draw the characters in it." He quit school after the sixth grade, and goes to a tutor mornings. "It's really butting in, the schoolwork, I mean," says he. "I'm not going to college, of course. Leaving school is like burning all your bridges. But painting is purely individual; it may be the only profession where you can do this." Such dedicated talk does not mean that the lean youth with long fair locks...
...project is its simple premise-not to reform public schools or start private schools, but to help kids help themselves to learning. Slaton says that his objective is "to stimulate or heighten interest." Adds one mother: "It's easier to get them to do this than their awn schoolwork. It's their own choice, and that's the secret...