Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school his life, a life of after-hours student baseball games and debate tournaments and art shows. These days at least, DeAngelis isn't falsely modest about this commitment: "People are saying I was out of touch with this school. I put in hours and hours and hours at extracurricular activities. I was at the play last year when Dylan was lighting specialist... Ask my wife how many hours I'm gone...
...troubled as Harris and Klebold aren't likely to stop making bombs one day and decide what they really should do is talk to an ex-jock principal about what's bugging them. And an alienated teen probably wouldn't expose his interior life during a well-attended extracurricular event. But DeAngelis says the official police report on Columbine, set for release in January, will show that the school wasn't a brutish place where cool kids humiliated outcasts every...
...their thinking. Sure, parents often play an influential role in the process, pushing for the school where they themselves had gone or perhaps for the campus that's closer to home, but ultimately, students will be on their own at their chosen college, reasonably free to explore new academic, extracurricular and social options. That's the way it's supposed...
...most important part of college life is not the quality of the academic experience, not the kinds of extracurricular activities available, not the luxuriousness of campus facilities but merely the idea of student independence. Home-schooled students already miss out on a great deal of social interaction and diversity during their middle and high school years; imagine the level of isolation PHC's environment will create. Undergraduates may learn a great deal about the liberal arts and the Western canon; they may even learn a great deal about the workings of Congress, but they will graduate without ever having lived...
...extracurricular route is a sound one," Prince said. "You don't need someone standing over you with a stick and beating you with what plays you need to read...