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...January 28, Laboureur, a middle school technology teacher, slapped an 11-year-old who responded with a vulgar epithet to Laboureur's orders to straighten up his desk. Summoned by the headmaster to confront the errant student and his parents, Laboureur acknowledged and apologized for delivering the blow, and received a verbal reprimand. But the father of the swatted child, a member of the local gendarmerie, considered that punishment too light. He filed a citizen's complaint for "violence against a minor," and his law enforcement colleagues brought Laboureur to the station, where he was questioned, fingerprinted, photographed, DNA-tested...
...this decision," she says. For now, the parents of homeschoolers are happy to say that they are breathing a sigh of relief and don't anticipate any more regulations. "[This ruling] gives us a lot more confidence and a lot more sense of freedom," says Pam Sorooshian, an uncredentialed teacher of her three daughters in Las Alamitas, Calif. "We can get back to educating our children and not be distracted...
...asked what McCain would do for farmers. A "young, hardworking American" asked what McCain would do to preserve Social Security for young, hardworking Americans. A veteran asked what McCain would do about veterans' benefits. Even the few questions that weren't strictly about the questioners were hardly unrelated - a teacher asked what McCain would do to bring technology into schools, a military recruit asked what McCain expected to happen to the military, and a conservative asked if McCain could reassure conservatives. McCain's slogan is "Country First," but his audience was all about Me First...
...teacher’s translation helped me understand his words, but his gestures conveyed his anger, powerless as it was. He told us he agreed with the policies, but their execution was corrupt. I asked my teacher whether this particular government-citizen interaction was a problem elsewhere in China, but he told me this punishing unfairness was particularly directed at Inner Mongolia’s minority population...
Like Nancy Gibbs, I eagerly await the arrival of "some new bums" in the political arena [July 28]. I even know some who would be perfect: an eighth-grade English teacher who knows the Constitution inside and out; an empathetic nurse with the experience to help establish a universal health-care plan. Sadly, these outstanding outsiders will remain outside until our system changes its rules by drastically limiting the amount of money a candidate is allowed to raise and by reducing the amount of time a candidate may campaign. Only by leveling the field will those players be able...