Word: graders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...house. Harris' father Wayne was a decorated Air Force pilot. One neighbor heard one of them ask the other if he had a metal baseball bat. From the garage came sounds of hammering and breaking glass. "He was always in there with the door closed," said a fifth-grader who lived nearby. Police say it would be possible to build 30 bombs in a single afternoon, with less than $200 worth of materials, all easily found at hardware and sporting-goods stores...
...dismiss any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing by detectives handling the case. Even if Pincham prevails in court, it's clear his client will have a hard time recapturing even a faint reminder of his previous life. Once an A student, family members say the boy, now a third-grader, brings home grades that range from failing to barely passing. He has been so tormented by his peers that rather than fight, the boy has withdrawn socially, preferring to spend his time after school in the house. "Everything has changed," says Crawford. "He doesn't want to go outside...
...nothing beats an overnight expedition. Fifth-grader Ryan Gregson spots a herd of deer in a meadow and exclaims, "Wow, I didn't know there were so many deer so close to where I live." And he won't soon forget...
...getting them to help out with the dishes after dinner. Sometimes it takes a kid to inspire other kids to care--a kid like Will Vinson, 12, whose aluminum-can-recycling crusade lit a fire under the city's next generation. Since he was a nine-year-old fourth-grader at Littlewood Elementary School, Will has united classmates, teachers, recycling firms and other local companies in a bid to rid Gainesville's school grounds of trash and develop youth recycling programs. Says Will: "I knew that if I did it, the other kids would stand...
...wasn't so easy. Will, now a sixth-grader at Gainesville's Westwood Middle School, repeatedly called a local recycling contractor, asking the firm to donate can crushers, and a supermarket, looking for carts for can collection. Even then, his dad Tim, a chemist at UF, and his mom Betsy, who teaches at the university's speech and hearing clinic, had to tell the companies Will was serious...