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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convice 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...
...Linda Brown Smith observed, "almost like Dad was still here, and I was reliving his days in court." Back in 1951, when she was a chubby third- grader in an all-black school, her father, Oliver Brown, was the name plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, the epochal case that rang down the curtain on legally segregated schools in the U.S. Thirty-five years later, the 43-year-old grandmother was about to take the witness stand as an intervening plaintiff in the very same case, charging that the public schools of Topeka had still not purged themselves...
...speech, supposedly an example of the finest eloquence Harvard and Radcliffe can muster, was delivered in an undistinguished style, riddled with the moronic cliches Harvard students have tried to live down for years, and written with the wit and grace I might expect from a not very intelligent ninth grader in a remedial composition course. To judge from the comments of my friends and the reaction of the audience, I surmise I was not alone in finding this speech insulting in its unctuous stupidity...
...This morning I just came to work with my father--I didn't even know this was going on, but when I saw it I decided to try out," said Anthony Zaniboni, an eighth grader at St. Peter's school in South Boston. "I've never acted before, but I tried out once as an extra," he said...
Schools also remain faithful to a traditional notion: the nail that sticks up must be hammered down. When Sixth-Grader Tetsuya Osawa returned to Tokyo from New York City, he encountered hostility. Classmates ridiculed his Americanized way of shrugging his shoulders in answer to questions and his practice of opening doors for girls. Osawa's teacher informed the boy's mother he must "act like a Japanese person." In short order, Osawa developed a stress-related ulcer and had to be transferred to a private international school. Adults hardly fare better. Says Koji Kato, chief researcher at the National Institute...