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...spend a lot of time in one school and try to figure out what pressures it faces, what is working, what isn't and what has really changed since last spring, when we all discovered how complicated high schools can be." Allowed to peel back the layers of Webster Groves, TIME's team was able to show how remarkable high school really...
...varsity cheerleaders, 14 strong tonight, do their pregame psych-up at Natalie Rodriguez's house in North Webster. Destiny's Child blares on the CD player, and between trips to the bulging buffet table, two black girls teach the others how to get down to the music. Junior Sarah Budzinski gets a plate of cake smashed in her face in early celebration of her 17th birthday tomorrow. After dinner, Natalie's mom braids their hair, brown and blond alike, into cornrows. "Whenever my mom used to braid my hair," says senior Ann Barnes, "she'd say the more it hurts...
...seconds into the game, Webster scores. Senior Patrick Hunt is up in the stands, giving science teacher Marty Walter a hard time. She could pass for a student herself, but to him she's still Mrs. Walter, and it's weird to see her here, out of the box, not talking in that biology voice. "It'll be easier after you graduate," she tells him. "What," he says, "like, we're going to be friends with you guys?" and she laughs and says, "Nah, we don't want you as friends either," and you realize these are the teachers...
Math teacher Eric Dunn has been wearing a Webster football jersey all day, No. 13, a walking ad for his student Karl Odenwald. Peter and Sally, her hair in pigtails, arrive together and sit in the very front. Mr. Winingham strolls by with his 11/2-year-old, who looks like an escapee from a Caravaggio painting. Sally starts playing with the child, getting in touch with her inner mom. Mr. Yates is with his two children and wife, Webster class of '85, and his in-laws, who were homecoming king and queen back...
...game is big and sloppy and wonderful to watch. With Northwest ahead 14-13, Karl makes a fine pass to Bobby, but the ball squirts through his hands. On the next play, Webster's Rodney Trevino catches a pass and scores. On the next series, Bobby, now playing defense, is determined to make up for his bobbled pass. He hammers a Northwest player, causing him to fumble. Webster's Raken Stamps recovers the ball and runs it into the end zone. Score...