Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late on a Monday afternoon and Frederick A. Birkett, head of the Benjamin Banneker School in North Cambridge, is walking through the school parking lot saying goodbye to a teacher...
Although he was a demanding teacher, Stern also displayed a sense of humor, asking piano quintet first violinist Eileen Woo '01 to "write a love letter to [her] boyfriend" as she played...
...last year a seemingly innocent bit of history homework left Paya feeling bitter and alone. The assignment was for students to write anonymous essays about their views on racism and whether they themselves might be racist. Days later, when the teacher read some of the essays aloud, Rhodes couldn't believe what she heard. One paper, she recalls, described black kids as "loud, obnoxious show-offs." Another depicted blacks as inferior. As usual, Paya was the only black student in the class. "I felt real uncomfortable and out of place," she recalls. "These were people I talked to and worked...
...student with Matt's history naturally worries school administrators. The week before, Matt says, he asked his Latin teacher, "What happens if you make a threat to kill a teacher? Do you get suspended or expelled?" He says he likes to play mind games and was just curious, but school officials were quick to take action. They immediately called Matt's psychiatrist and his mother and asked his teachers to keep an eye on him. An administrator told him, Matt says, "If I threaten anyone or make any 'I'm going to kill myself' statements, I would be suspended with...
When Bobby was in elementary and middle school, his grades were above average. But even in kindergarten, his teacher wrote in his report card, "Bobby is an energetic and social child... He wants to have friends and does have them, but it's something that causes him to worry." Now his friends worry his parents. He seldom introduces them to his friends, many of whom are white and come from affluent families. "He thinks we're country bumpkins," says Bobby Sr. "This young man lives in a fantasy world. He wants to be rich...