Word: schoolwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three close friends who are not necessarily friends with each other. Cliques are not firm or obvious. Similarly, these girls often date many boys without being serious about any. Sometimes, however, a chocolate girl has few or no friendships and she spends most of her waking life on schoolwork...
...tests put him high in the genius category, but his grades were mediocre until his interest was aroused. He was so bored by his fifth-grade schoolwork in Stockton, Calif., where his father then taught at the University of the Pacific, that concerned school officials gave him a battery of psychological tests, then decided to let him skip the sixth grade. His marks climbed, and he was jumped past the ninth and eleventh grades. He went to summer school, took eight semesters of Berkeley math and humanities courses by mail, graduated from high school...
...posture of depression" in which the student becomes withdrawn, "seldom leaving his room, which has, like himself, become increasingly unkempt and uncared for." This may be accompanied by lack of appetite, headaches, constipation and loss of weight. > A decline in selfesteem, which shows up in daydreaming, procrastination in schoolwork, inability to concentrate on reading material, apathy and fatigue. > A loss of interest in academic work. The student may prefer "to thumb idly through magazines and science fiction, haunt movies, sit about all day listening to hi-fi or just languishing." >Suicide threats and notes, which "should always be taken seriously...
...Patriots practice sessions are no heavier than early fall practice at colleges. The players run through exercises, drills, and patterns twice a day for an hour and a half each time. In the evening, the players do their schoolwork with the coaches...
...story is told as a grab bag of gleanings from Teacher Barrett's mailbox, blackboard, wastebasket and students' schoolwork. Teachers chuckle in recognition at the memos Miss Barrett receives, such as one beginning: "Please disregard the following," and at the kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate...