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...Parents of students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School expressed mixed reactions to a city task force's recommendation to eliminate grouping students according to their ability, according to the parent liaison for the school...
...Parents with top-level students occasionally have concerns that the student won't be challenged enough," said Joanne Ackman, the parent liaison for Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. "But there is also some concern that in a mixed ability grouping setting that students of lower abilities will be overwhelmed...
...unusual for courts to rescue children from their own homes, but their parents are usually charged with gross neglect or abuse. Tanner, who plans to appeal, is losing her daughter for doing something that is perfectly legal, even if it is frowned upon by the Surgeon General. Hers is one of a growing number of cases, mainly involving children in divorce custody suits, in which judges have prohibited parents from smoking around kids who are sensitive to tobacco. Legal Times reported this month that courts in at least 11 states have dealt with the issue, almost always siding with...
Whatever the scientific conclusions, Bill Wordham, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute trade group, contends that the court cases are an invasion of privacy: "We have to ask ourselves where this would stop. Is a parent who habitually takes a child to MacDonald's or otherwise feeds that child unhealthy food any less deserving of custody? What about a parent who allows his child to watch long hours of television?" Some nonindustry observers agree, conjuring up visions of government antismoking patrols. Says Thomas Harvey Holt, a Visiting Fellow at the Capital Research Center in Washington: "Smokers soon may find social...
Banzhaf is looking forward to the day when it won't take a custody battle to defend children against secondhand smoke. "I am certainly not suggesting that every time a parent lights up in the same room, we're going to cry child abuse," he says. "But the same protection will eventually be extended to children in ongoing marriages through child-neglect proceedings." Most public health officials share Banzhaf's exasperation. Says Dr. Ronald Davis, medical director of the Michigan public health department: "When I see parents smoking around their kids, I have the same reaction as I do toward...