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...final days of the school year, and others say they never want to come back. One girl says she will drop out entirely to begin home schooling. "It's not worth going to school to get shot," says Krystal Graham, 16. It's almost as if Littleton taught us nothing about how to understand the individual traumas that drive certain boys to solve their problems with rifles...
...your kids why everyone has the day off. On the way out of town, swing by the war memorial. Your kids may see it every day, but now you can explain what it is there for. Lucky to live in a time of relative peace, they need to be taught that we honor the sacrifice of others. Find out if there's a parade nearby, the kind with high school marching bands, little kids with streamers on their bikes, and beribboned old veterans--the people for whom this day was created...
...Boyd's gift with words found a much more practical outlet. Harvard may have taught Boyd about languages, but as a reporter, Boyd spent a career showing exactly how words are to be used, and what they are to be used...
...drill continues at Gaithersburg Middle School, where even school T shirts are emblazoned GMS: WHERE CHARACTER COUNTS! No separate classes in character are taught, but teachers say it is integrated into the curriculum; thus a lesson about Helen Keller becomes a case study in courage and persistence. Students who demonstrate any of the pillars get their pictures posted in the hallway and free ice cream. Character ed, says principal David Steinberg, "is our philosophical glue." Among some students, though, there are signs the glue doesn't stick. "Most people just follow it to get the award," says sixth-grader Novlette...
...right? How do you teach your child to be good at sports and be a good sport too? My favorite authority on this subject is John McCarthy, 30, a former minor-league pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles organization who in 1992 returned to Washington, his hometown. He has since taught baseball to thousands of local children through his Home Run Baseball camp and to a high-spirited team of disadvantaged kids to which he donates his time at an inner-city elementary school...