Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision involved the case of Gene Arline, who in 1979 was dismissed as a third-grade teacher after she suffered her third flare-up of tuberculosis symptoms in two years. The school board in Nassau County, Fla., said it feared she could spread the disease. Bitter "after what they did to me," Arline sued, arguing that she was protected by the 1973 federal Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination against the handicapped by recipients of federal funds. The trouble was that the law made no specific mention of contagious diseases...
Many are the untold secrets of the household. The last governess died mysteriously, and Miles' teacher did too. To complicate matters, she begins to hallucinate, seeing the images of the dead governess and teacher hovering around the children. She starts and screams for no reason, and all this within three days of arriving at the manor...
...flash of light, a loud noise, and a curious smell later, Dewitt found himself basking in the unearthly glow of Children of a Lesser God (Copley Place). William Hurt plays a sensitive teacher of deaf children who falls for the lovely yet defiant Marlee Martin. Filmed in the Maritime provinces of Canada, Children has a warm, picturesque look to it that goes perfectly with the touching tale of love's triumph over painful skin conditions--sorry, I mean deafness...
...different figure in the movement. There's the "Woman who writes plays," portrayed by playwright Sargent, who says she's writing the play even as it unfolds before us. She is joined by six other women representing a range of experiences: the single mother, the women's studies teacher, the anarchist, the anti-imperialist, the nun and the activist...
Junior learns quickly that when his teacher marks him absent in homeroom, he can insist that it was actually the presence of absence and the absence of presence. If the teacher questions him further, he patiently explains that it all goes back to his fear of castration...