Word: graders
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Biehl wrote that her concerned eighth-grader asked, "We don't have any stocks, do we, Mom?" She said she soft-pedaled any concerns about his college fund to stop the panic. Biehl, whose parents filed for bankruptcy when she herself was in college, wrote: "I briefly explained that it's all cyclical." Still, on the Monday of the vote and subsequent market crash, Biehl took a look at her 401(k) and discovered she had lost $6,300. "But then I thought, I have still doubled my money since I first started investing and - as I wrote...
...reasons. The people who run campaigns know you only have so much time to think about this stuff, so they want to make it easy for you. They translate complex economic projections into aphorisms. They turn tax plans that must be read with lawyers' help into sentences a third-grader can understand. The details? Bah. That's politically foolish, even if voters claim that's what they really want to hear about...
When Heather Gillman, a normally reserved junior at Ponce de Leon High School in the Florida Panhandle, found out that her openly lesbian cousin, a ninth grader, had been suspended, along with 10 other students, for expressing support of a lesbian senior who claimed to have been harassed, the straight 17-year-old was outraged. Gillman responded to the suspensions - and the claim that the students had committed "illegal organizing" - by wearing a rainbow T-shirt and her cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people...
...Schroeder was "born green," according to her mother Angela, and she takes that environmental enthusiasm to class with her at the Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, N.J. The 12-year-old has been a driving force in greening her school since she was a fourth-grader, pushing teachers and classmates alike to cut waste and use less energy. But what really motivates kids--especially the sort of achievers who attend an exemplary private school like Oak Knoll--is a little competition. So when Schroeder and her classmates found out about a website launched last year that...
...part of the Leverett community,” said Brandt, a graduate student in the history of American civilization. “There’s a lot to learn, but I’ve got a great teacher.” Shapiro and her son Robert, a second-grader who Shapiro said grew up in the House and thinks of himself as “junior resident dean of Leverett,” will continue to live nearby. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached balakris@fas.harvard.edu...