Word: dekalb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealer to sell its cars for $5,000. Then I'll go to my ATM and get the cash to buy my BMW. With any kind of luck, I'll get this done before they both go out of business due to idiotic government interference. GARY W. JOHNSON Dekalb...
...violence. Schools that try very hard to connect to families and communities can find potentially destructive students earlier. Not surprisingly, the districts that have had the most success are the ones with schools in or near big cities, which have had to combat violence the longest. Five years ago, DeKalb County officials in Georgia were finding so many weapons on campus that they began a campaign to alert parents...
...DeKalb officials urge kids to warn them about troubled classmates, and a civic group gives $100 rewards for students who tattle on weapons violators. Counselors look for bullies; dogs hunt for guns. DeKalb has this success to report: five years ago, it confiscated 76 weapons; this year, it confiscated "only" eight...
Obviously there is no seditious intent in this misinformation, but the lack of specificity of names obfuscates her article. When it is unclear in which school serving the more than 90,000 students of the county "a young Dekalb student, Ronald Gaines" actually attended, her editorial loses credibility...
While I find Milgrom-Elcott's editorial interesting for bringing such an exemplary case of church-state co-existence in public schools, I do not care for her misinformation, however benign. Her vision of Dekalb county is tantamount to referring to all of the suburban parts of Middlesex county when referring only to Cambridge, glossing over this community's deserved autonomy from Boston proper. NATHANIEL W. BULLARD '00 March...