The shooters at my school obtained their guns illegally, through private sales and straw purchases.
Next, I approached my own community by holding assemblies for faculty at my school.
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As a YIP member, I became involved with leadership workshops for males at my school.
Ten years ago, everyone at my school wanted to be a dot com entrepreneur.
During the primaries Hillary Clinton came to speak at my school because she has a strong base here.
Either way, I started figuring out that if I wanted something, I would have to go after it, whether that was an after-school job or leadership positions at my school.
At my new school, I was surprised at how arrogant some of the students were.
At my last school job, the students were typing papers on iMacs that were six years old.
Drawing momentum from the success of the library, I have started an Empower Orphans club at my high school.
In 1969 at my high school sports physical exam, I discovered that I had melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
If you presented this kind of argument in class at my law school, people would probably start laughing under their breath.
Quite by chance, I had myself just played the part of a demon king in a Christmas play at my primary school.
At a recent health fair my club hosted at a local school, my children helped entertain other kids while their parents received diabetes screenings and their siblings underwent eye exams.
During senior year at my Jesuit high school, Seattle Prep, almost all my friends sent applications to schools hundreds of miles from home.
"My biggest mistake was when I turned up at school wearing my uniform when it was supposed to be a non-uniform day!"
Deborah Derrick: While I was an undergrad at Duke, I spent my junior year abroad at the London School of Economics, and there my world was really cracked open.
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"When I was at school my teacher asked us who had to work harder, the poor Africans, or the rich Americans, " he began.
The math they taught in my senior year at my American high school was at the level of the 4th grade in Korea!!!!!
Having donated to a foreign-language learning program at my sons' school, for example, I felt motivated to write letters of protest when it became threatened by the school board.
Many of my peers at my public high school were talented and had the grades and test scores to attend four-year universities and colleges, but lacked the guidance or resources to navigate the admissions process.
In the beginning I saw my employment at this urban school as an opportunity to continue my call.
The few times my boys at school tried to bring it up, I flipped.
When I got older, I taught Sunday School at my church.
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David Helberstam spoke at my graduation from journalism school in 2005.
This year though, just like the excuses I used to give for failing to do my homework at school, I simply haven't had time to do enough practice runs.
However, I also go to the gym every day, take time to play tennis, meditate and go to my recovery support meeting, meet with friends, and have certain times of the day that are off-limits for doing work (unless very extenuating circumstances), namely the evening from when I pick up my daughter at school until when she goes to sleep.
My wife was at home while my daughter Thea, who is 12, was at school when it all happened.
At the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, I found my home.
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Through all my years growing up, the special services at school have made the biggest impact on my progress.
My counselor in middle school at the time, Ms. Artson, took time to listen to my arguments, maybe my hurt and defense mechanisms.
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