Word: teacher
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These days I've been thinking a lot of a guy in my high school I'll call Leonard, who was said to know 58 terms for the female breast. He used the terms constantly, and unexpectedly. A few of us would be talking about our Latin teacher's severity, and Leonard would suddenly pipe up with, "That Matilda's got a set of Howards on her, all right...
...released lately, I'd guess that he's prospering as a screenwriter. I've resented being reminded that I knew somebody like Leonard in those days. I resented being reminded of a "relationship that was not appropriate"; the euphemism introduced by the President himself is just how that Latin teacher would have described what I spent a lot of time longing for in those days. Many people on television Monday night said this episode has diminished the presidency. For me, it has diminished high school...
...dirty words. This year, the WB scored a unique double: Its "Dawson's Creek" was named the filthiest of PTC's "dirty dozen," while its squeaky-clean "7th Heaven" placed high on the group's "diamond dozen" list. "Creek" earned Most Objectionable honors with its Pacey-beds-his-teacher plotline...
Nonetheless, in the past few years several states have streamlined their firing procedures, and some have ended tenure altogether. Next year, for instance, Florida will cut to 90 days the time a teacher has to show improvement before a dismissal hearing. New York now requires most of these hearings to last less than 60 days. In 1995 South Dakota repealed its tenure laws, so teachers can be fired for just cause...
Every time a new horror story appears describing a teaching debacle--a Connecticut teacher helped her students cheat on the state's basic skills test but ended up with only a 30-day suspension--the pressure on states to change tenure laws grows. And the movement gained support last month when Democratic Senator John Kerry joined his G.O.P. colleague Al D'Amato in calling to "end teacher tenure as we know it." That's too late to help Ms. God's students, but not their younger siblings...