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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for beating the system, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...error in a town census report lists the first grader as an 87-year-old student. Somehow, her birth date was marked as 1904 instead of 1984, and she was recorded as head of the household...
Emma, a local sixth-grader and a participant in the Harvard Project on the Psychology of Women and Girls, visited Boston's Museum of Fine Arts recently...
Blout entered the scene in the fall of 1988 as the only ninth-grader in the newly-formed AIDS Peer Leaders group that was trying to educate the student body about the dangers of AIDS and the necessity to practice safe...
...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...