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...range of programs where it’s hard to do any substantial harm, like cleaning up the Charles River,” says Christopher Winship, a sociology professor. “But the other end of the continuum is, say, working with a second or third grader and helping them learn to read. Perhaps, for them, the more fundamental issue is learning to trust adults and form strong relationships in their lives, and if you blow it on that, in a sense, you may have made things much worse...
...hails from Brooklyn). And it wasn’t the deep-dish kind that Chicago-folks swear by. No—it was what I would describe as reconstituted space pizza, in a personal-sized tin trays. But it was pizza. And I was an easily pleased second grader, who didn’t think past the fact that a boy would soon try to knock me off the monkey bars onto spiky tanbark during recess...
Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13. The day before, he had been shot in the head in an Oxnard, Calif., classroom full of students. Police have charged a sweet-faced boy called Brandon McInerney, 14, with first-degree murder and with a hate crime. According to the Los Angeles Times and KTLA, McInerney and some other boys accosted King about his sexuality on Feb. 11. Students apparently often taunted King, who didn't even have a safe home to return...
...your first year doing the Pudding show?CM: It’s actually my first year doing theatrics at Harvard. RR: Is this the first time you’ve been dressed up in women’s clothes?CM: Actually, it’s not. As a fourth grader, I dressed up as Lucille Ball in a performance I was doing at my school, but it’s been a number of years since I had a dress on. But it feels just like home.RR: Really? You think you could get used to it?CM: I don?...
There's a very thin line between being thrilled and being terrified, and Candice Feiring saw both emotions on her son's face. The sixth-grader had just gotten off the phone with a girl in his class who called to ask if he'd like to go to the movies--just the two of them. It sounded a whole lot like a date to him. "Don't I have something to do tomorrow?" he asked his mother. A psychologist and an editor of The Development of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence, Feiring was uniquely prepared to field that question...