Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Times to the tabloids. Letourneau's relationship with Vili, who turns 15 in June, as well as her conviction and imprisonment, have drawn international attention. The BBC has come to Seattle to film a documentary. Her image has been an alluring paradox: at once darling suburban teacher and predatory monster; so blond, so pretty, so...dangerous to children? She is more complicated, of course, and soon several magazines will render her in brushstrokes instead of spray paint. But even here there is haste: Mirabella and Spin rushed out advance copies of their articles last week to preview salacious disclosures...
...Mary; now hers seemed to be disintegrating. She had been a superteacher, hauling her own kids to her classroom after dinner so she could chat and play as she finished special projects. But after learning about her father's illness, she withdrew, declining to take on a student teacher and saying no to some Girl Scout duties...
...appalling deaths of four innocent children and their courageous teacher in Jonesboro, Ark. [THE JONESBORO SHOOTINGS, April 6], remind us of the terrible price we all pay for the lax gun laws in our nation. We must look closely at children's access to firearms. Gun advocates repeat the mantra that if youngsters are properly trained in firearm use, they won't shoot people. The boys accused of the Jonesboro shootings were well trained, and they killed five people and wounded 10 others. You can teach kids how to use guns, but you can't train them...
...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...
...same way a teacher's puzzlement can be a source of help to a student, a student's puzzlement can help show a teacher where the message isn't getting across," Tarrant said. "That's one reason why, when it has been feasible, I try to run a section in the Core course...