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...school: be involved, but make sure it's constructive. Parents of successful students are advocates for their child but are supportive, rather than combative, toward the school. "These aren't parents who blame you and want to know why the system didn't come through for their child," says Shirley Harden, principal of Winand Elementary, Donny Williams' alma mater. "They want to know how they can work with you and make things best for their kids...
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...felt as if we were talking in circles arounda complex of deeply emotional issues without evergetting too specific," wrote Shirley Thompson, aresident tutor in Adams House, and StephenMarshall, a resident tutor in Currier House, in ane-mail message...
...boys, remanded to home detention by a judge, are free to return to school. Englewood residents are now claiming police coercion and racial bias in the case. The police deny any misconduct. "These babies just did not do this," says Shirley Blanton, a close friend of the families. Now, to celebrate, she says, "the whole neighborhood is going to have a barbecue"--except, perhaps, for the kin of Ryan Harris...
...sure, there are people who deny nearly all the above. "There is no major age discrimination in recruiting," says Ruth Graham, who owns a Washington employment agency. There is much less today than there was 20 years ago, anyway, says Shirley Brussell, 77. She is executive director of Operation ABLE, a Chicago-based employment and training agency that specializes in helping job seekers age 50 and above and proves by its mere existence that older workers get more assistance now than they once...