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...almost beside the point so long as their kids are out of public schools. Even parents who have been burned by charters continue to relish their right to choose. After Buzz and Samantha Koch, ages 11 and 8, spent a year in a cash-strapped charter with no playground or library, their mother Trish became a tougher customer. She shopped around, sifting through test-score data on the Internet and touring a dozen charter schools, including many that she says made her think, "I wouldn't put my dog here." Her children are now prospering at the Noah Webster Basic...
...down a methamphetamine lab a block from the school. Kids confided they slept under their beds to avoid bullets from drive-by shootings. So Douglas and her teachers and parents worked with police to clean things up. Prison inmates were bused in to sweep crack vials from the school playground. Parents cruised Southside armed with cell phones, ready to dial police at the first sign of trouble. Now when Douglas circles the neighborhood, kids bolt out of their homes as if she were the Good Humor man. "She's not afraid to walk up and down the streets like...
...PLAYGROUND SEX ROLES In a study of kids in day care, researchers at Arizona State University found that when boys play mostly with boys and girls mostly with girls, stereotypical play patterns are reinforced: boys play more roughly and farther away from adults, while girls play closer and more calmly. This cycle tends to keep the two groups from mingling. Inevitable? Perhaps, but the researchers noted that encouraging play between boys and girls may help both enrich their learning experiences...
...playground game has drawn some vocal defenders. "You mean there's weak in the world? There's strong?" howled SPORTS ILLUSTRATED columnist Rick Reilly. "Of course there is, and dodge ball is one of the first opportunities in life to figure out which you are and how you're going to deal with it." Martha Kupferschmidt, director of personnel and student services at the Murray school district in Utah, wonders why dodge ball has been singled out. "If we were going to ban dodge ball for aggressiveness," she says, "we would have to look at a whole gamut of sports...
...include whole fruits in both your and your children's diets. Whole fruits contain nutrients that don't survive the juicemaking process. You might also introduce your kids to the pleasures of a cool glass of water. On a hot summer's day or after a race around the playground, there's nothing like...