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...subject to the whim of the corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pray for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...
...Williamson says two-thirds of each class matriculates at a two- or four-year college. None have ever considered applying to Harvard University...
...Kids in the Midwest, they're still pretty much respectful of you, unlike other places," Williamson says. The teenagers' favorite hangout is the parking lot outside the town's grocery store...
Although fights sometimes break out and some alcohol and drug abuse occurs, the biggest problem is domestic child abuse and sexual abuse. Williamson estimates he deals with five or six such cases a year. In a recent case, a father sexually abused his two junior-high-age sons, who then sexually abused a younger sister. The boys were removed from the home by the state's Child Protective Services...
Young people aren't staying the way they used to. "They're going to the Lincolns and the Omahas and the bigger areas," Williamson says. "These houses you're going to see them go up for sale, and there isn't going to be a market to buy them...