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Stop putting teachers down! In the schools I have taught in, teachers work very hard to provide a quality education for all students. Along with their subject area, they have to teach character, morals and basic hygiene; deal with disruptive students; and tackle numerous other tasks. Schools have become the place where a child is not only educated but also raised. Teachers can't do everything. Schools should be the place to send your child to learn, not to be raised. REBECCA M. GILLESPIE Elkhart, Kans...
...Neill was the last Speaker to leave without being ousted by scandal or electoral defeat. Denny Hastert may hope for a long reign in the top job. But if the economy keeps going south, Hastert, the former high school economics teacher, may be undone by the subject he once taught...
...organs from brain-dead victims (see Eulogy). DIED. CARMINE NIGRO, 91, first chess teacher of Bobby Fischer, the former world champion; in Peachtree City, Georgia. In 1951, Nigro, then president of the Brooklyn Chess and Checkers Club, befriended the eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor when his skills surpassed Nigro's. Fischer dedicated his first book to Nigro. DIED. TROY DONAHUE, 65, teenage idol in the 1950s and '60s who rose to fame after playing Sandra Dee's boyfriend in the 1959 film A Summer...
...sign inside the front door of Holy Cross Primary School, in north Belfast, reads: "If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe." Before they could get inside to read that sign last week, the pupils of Holy Cross - Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11 - got a brutal lesson in belief. To reach school they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and escalated within days to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police...
...McCrory about the men and women shouting abuse at her. "They're the same as us," said a classmate. "They're warm-blooded, but they don't believe in Mary." Will it be possible for all of Ulster's children to learn the tolerance that their parents were not taught...