Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that struck me first, hit me in the face with something I didn't really want to see. Going to school in Massachusetts eight hours away from home and family and friends did not make me a different person. I found this out early in October, from a good teacher if not a famous one: Grays Hall, a Yard dorm. The method of instruction: I fell down the Grays Hall stairs, in front of a well populated Yard that took no notice of the first-year sprawled unceremoniously on the grass...
...know, I know--I thought it too. How could any grade-giving official hate the high school teacher's lapdog...
...parents like us with demanding full-time jobs that often consume days and evenings--Nancy is an elementary-school teacher and I write (but usually about somebody else)--the annual drive can be an especially rewarding opportunity to spend some captive-audience time with our kids. It can also be a challenging time, as most parents know too well ("We there yet?" "He's touching me!"). For reasons I don't fully comprehend, since I'm not fond of driving and do all of it, I actually look forward to this two-day, 1,300-mile sojourn. Perhaps...
...sixth period at Sacramento's Natomas High School, and love is in the air. Teacher Janet Mann arrives bearing a white veil, a garter and carnations from the grocery store down the street. Then she asks the class to pair off, boy-girl, and proceeds. "Do you promise to be truthful and honest to your partner...until the course ends on June 10?" The couples say "I do" and swap plastic rings. Then Mann instructs the giggling newlyweds, "You may now not kiss the bride...
...have been a public high school teacher for 30 years, and I read your report with great interest. But school violence isn't just about depression in youngsters. It's about anger. It is not depression that drives these children to kill. It's anger and their inability to handle their rage. A depressed child kills himself. An angry child kills his classmates and his teachers. LORRAINE M. SULLIVAN Arlington, Mass...