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Physical education teacher Chris Anderson unhooks a sheet and welcomes 20 kindergartners to the gym...
Cambridgeport's gym has only three walls. Sheets are all that separate the open side of the gym from the hallway--and these sheets are not enough to keep balls from bouncing into the corridor...
Anderson says the gym is a dangerous place for students to play games. The gym doubles as a storage facility and after school-wide events it holds hundreds of folding chairs...
...school last week when they realized they would be in Pennsylvania for two days doing nothing but fund raisers. They cobbled together an event at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pa., which the principal didn't learn about until 3 p.m. the day before. The gym was only two-thirds full...
...year has begun to resemble a blockbuster movie release, with all the associated marketing tie-ins and other gimmicks. The nation's schools, caught between stagnant education spending and advertisers' growing interest in the youth market, are suffering an unprecedented onslaught of commercial overtures. From selling ad space on gym walls to allowing companies to use students for market research during class time, school administrators are scrambling to solve their financial difficulties by permitting companies to cash in on kids. Good public policy, however, suggests that schools should resist the temptation to turn their curriculum into a flea market open...