The news, and so I grew up - there was a point in my life, like in middle school, where I just wanted to fit in and I just didn't want to be an Arab because I thought, you know, it was a terrible thing.

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Just a few voters trickled into a polling place at a middle school in Chantilly on Tuesday morning.

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When Taiga got the lead role in a play at the middle school, he pleaded with his father to come, even for just a few minutes.

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But that money should not fall squarely on the heads of middle class kids who are forced to take out tens of thousands in debt just to attend school.

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The coaches assigned to Walton Middle School were John Hobson, a bushy-bearded high-school history teacher who was just thirty-three years old when he started but had been a successful baseball and tennis coach, and Diane Harding, a teacher who had two decades of experience but had spent the previous seven years out of the classroom, serving as a technology specialist.

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