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Along with grownup responsibilities, K-8s tend to offer the occasional--and still wanted--hug from a teacher, says Dr. Lottie Smith, a K-8 principal in Milwaukee. "In middle and high school, that's a no-no. We don't touch," says Smith. Middle schools were originally intended to be nurturing places, but it hasn't been easy to pull that off, says Harry Finks, a veteran middle school teacher and principal, who wrote one of the first handbooks for middle school staff: "You want to create a dialogue, so that an eighth-grade boy can come...
...Keep up the family rituals that have always sustained you all: family dinners, church, camping, skiing and watching the same dumb TV shows. Thirteen-year-olds need to feel that they can touch their own childhood frequently and be nourished by traditions they know well...
Many professors who criticized Summers at three contentious Faculty meetings this spring also reserved harsh words for the Corporation, which they described as out-of-touch with the campus...
...different team, and as we drift ever farther from the magic moments of the fall of ?04, and our relationship particularly with the Yankees enters new chapters-witness the weekend?s events-this becomes the Sox reality we have to deal with. The trophy, still thrilling to the touch, is a vessel of the past...
...don’t know all the kids. I only talked to 30 of them and it is not a random study; these are just the families who got in touch with me. As a group they’re certainly above average...