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...decrease the level and degree of misbehavior in the local schools. Although the committee noted that discipline reporting may not be consistent across classrooms, acting Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) principal Christopher Saheed attributed the decreases to a school-wide cultural change, referencing his school’s homeroom program. In this initiative, a group of twenty students are matched up with two or more teachers throughout their high school careers. This program creates an informal advising system for students towards the school’s goal of “connection, communication, and community,” Saheed...
...Teacher.com omits any mention of his obsession with molested and murdered girls. But if that document even approximates the truth, the current prime suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey had hopped between enough jobs and countries over the past decade - glorified nanny in the Netherlands, homeroom instructor in Honduras, to name but two - to raise a bouquet of red flags in any principal's mind...
...become jealous enemies or embarrassing reminders of a childhood left behind. Then there are the simmering rivalries inside the squad itself, sometimes fueled by parents with their own agendas. Finally, there's the pressure to perform in front of family and friends (yikes, there's that cute boy from homeroom!), all the while being pretty, pleasant and smiling. Cheerleading, in fact, may be the ultimate magnifying lens for the manifold pressures of being a modern 13-year...
According to the lab’s website, several cotton-top tamarins are kept in homeroom cages...
...hopeful Jamie Hunt, 16, felt he could not become a world-class junior player while attending a regular school. The international circuit has players on the road 50% of the time?and it's hard to focus on your backhand when you're worrying about being on time for homeroom. So in 2003 Hunt, who hones his ground strokes at Elite TNT Tennis Academy in April Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility I need...