Word: brandon
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...could determine the next bell captain of the Lincoln Bedroom, Greg and Virginia Harrell feel the same way as a lot of their neighbors. Vice President Al Gore, or Texas governor George Bush? They were more excited about their options at the Bill O' Fare Food Court in the Brandon Town Center Mall on a recent family outing...
...opening play foreshadowed the entire game. Brown's Brandon Buchanon returned the opening kickoff 97 yards to begin Brown's thrashing of Fordham...
...middle school enrollment--not nearly enough to achieve the classroom tranquillity in Baltimore that was the initial goal. But in its four years, Baraka has delivered an unexpected bonus. It has turned around the lives of most of the students who have gone there. Many of them, like Brandon, were bright and able to learn once they were removed from the negative influences of their neighborhoods and from their often troubled families. "The pattern for a lot of our kids is so devastating," says Kristy Ward, a teacher at Northeast Middle School in Baltimore. "They don't just need smaller...
...hell," says Brandon of his first year at Baraka. He kept talking back to his teachers, again and again, and landed in the "boma," a crude, isolated group of tents surrounded by thornbushes that Baraka used for punishment. For smaller matters like swearing or sleeping in class, discipline worked on a point system. Staying out of trouble earned students safaris, video nights and trips to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, three hours south of the school...
...Brandon had never really studied before; he hadn't brought a single book home from school. At Baraka he had to adjust to the rigorous classes designed to raise the students up to grade level. That typically meant cramming five years of learning into two years...