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...ashamed that The Crimson reprinted "A Grader's Reply" (Opinion, May 16). Among other blatantly sexist comments, the author of the piece (which was originally printed in 1962) states that while A's go to those essays with creativity, "The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over...
...Imagine if the target of "A Grader's Reply" hadn't been the women of the College but rather some ethnic or religious group--the article would have never made it out of the archives! Instead, it appears to be The Crimson's opinion that while racial and religious discrimination is wholly impermissible, it's perfectly all right to discriminate against women-after all, they're just 'Cliffies...
...what their child's next term paper is on--and when it's due. "I have to admit I don't go to PTA meetings, but I can check up on homework assignments, projects and grades while I'm at work," says Bailey Mitchell, father of a ninth-grader...
...royal pain. In an age when many schools would be pleased if most of their parents would venture into the building a couple of times a year, Kanofsky, of Skokie, Ill., is in her kids' schools as many as three times a week. The mother of a sixth-grader, an 11th-grader and a college student, she has crusaded for typing instruction, against the high noise level at pep rallies and for more-demanding instruction at the junior high. "When a principal says, 'It's my school,' I tell him, 'It's our school. You have to do what...
Opponents warn that dodge ball--also called murder ball and killer ball in some places--could be an incubator for later aggressive, even violent behavior. "The whole game to [some kids] is about hitting someone as hard as they can and laughing," says Lilla Atherton, a fifth-grader in Fairfax County, Va., where the game has been banned. "If a boy doesn't throw hard and make a hit, the other boys call him a girl." Critics charge the sport isn't even good exercise, since it typically leaves the weakest, most overweight kids--the ones usually knocked out first...