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...both teacher and pupil at the same time. I can learn, but still be a valuable resource. I always thought that being a proctor would end up being a pretty good deal (except for the Annenberg food, which I realized I never got used to eating), but it’s ending up paying dividends in ways that I never foresaw...
Instantly, I was back in 8th grade, on the day when the female English teacher, who for our purposes was also a sex-ed teacher, demonstrated condom use by stretching a lubricated rubber around the fist of one of the most muscular boys in the class. “Now, people used to do this with cucumbers,” she explained. “Or bananas. But I wanted to show you how big they...
...militants, razing classrooms and slaughtering teachers is a justified strategy. Besides their anger-and that of many ordinary Thai Muslims-at what they perceive to be the marginalization of the south (the region is among Thailand's poorest), the insurgents have long despised government schools, whether Buddhist or Muslim. The rebels see them as representative of a Thai state they believe suppresses the culture, language and religion of Malay Muslims, who make up the majority of people in the southern provinces of this otherwise overwhelmingly Buddhist nation. Resistance to Bangkok's assimilation policies-banning Muslim headscarves, closing schools not conforming...
...crush opposition within their own communities, the militants are killing just as many Muslims, including village chiefs, religious leaders, and anyone suspected of spying for the police or military. When it comes to teachers, however, the victims are nearly all Buddhists. As one of Ban Bukoh's two Buddhist teachers, Prapa Boonaeb, 57, who runs the kindergarten, feels marked for death. "You don't know when they'll pull the trigger," says Prapa, a short-haired woman with a brisk but cheerful manner. "We try to keep a constant lookout, but it's hard because our attention is usually...
...Buchinsky's Little Racquets is different from other tennis lessons because it brings all the equipment--even the net--directly to the schools. That means parents don't have to shuttle their kids back and forth to private lessons and schools don't have to put a gym teacher on the payroll. Best of all, the 45-min. morning classes leave afternoons free for Buchinsky to work out and still get home in time to meet her three kids when they get out of school...