Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, when fifth-grader Monette Rethford, in Norman, Okla., is told that she cannot get together with other students on school property to pray or read the Bible, it looks very much like a restriction of her freedom to worship. To publicize their own fervor, tens of thousands of students gathered around their school flagpoles to pray last Sept. 11. "I don't want a government church or a teacher opening class with prayer," says Jay Sekulow of Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, a conservative organization specializing in church-state litigation. "But the First Amendment protects individual speech, even religious...
...intend to scare anyone during the continual paper-writing frenzy that characterizes every second of our existence during the term. But isn't tailoring papers to attract the favorable attention of a grader selling out? Aren't we losing any hope of intellectual integrity by conforming the language and ideas in our papers to get better grades...
Adam I. Fogel, 10, plays a lot of chess. The Agassiz Elementary School fifth grader was a member of the 1990 Massachusetts junior high championship chess team...
What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know (Doubleday; $15) asks youngsters, among other things: What did Little Miss Muffet sit on? What does a stomach do? Which is the biggest continent? Who was Louis Armstrong? The second-grade volume advances to questions about Robin Hood, the Great Wall of China, counting to 100 and the human sperm...
...four and 11 work through reading and mathematics exercises and then at recess stampede out of the air-conditioned, cinder-block building to become blurs in the steamy 100 degrees heat. They are candid about their options. "If I was home, I'd just sit around," says fifth-grader Alkima Thomas...