My high school buddy says my doppelganger wasn't sending out status updates.
And as an educator I've seen the impact of that in my school and it hasn't been a positive impact.
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We weren't in school, and he wasn't reading my book for extra credit.
Yet as the smiling faces of girls in white dresses I hadn't seen since high school stared at me from my computer screen, I couldn't help but feel I was suddenly looking at the path I hadn't taken.
The one you don't know belonged to my Sunday school teacher, then mayor of Sunnyvale.
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.
But the kids in my district who are losing their school bus can't book a flight to class.
At the time, with my oldest still in high school, I didn't fully appreciate the wisdom of her words.
Ms. PEGGY LEE (School Lunch Administrator): And I remember sitting in a cafeteria in elementary school and I didn't want my peas and I put them in my milk carton beca--and tried to hide them because the teacher wouldn't let me go until I'd eaten all my peas.
"Of course I don't want any of my kids shot in school, " said Claudia Schreiber, 52, whose son attends middle school there.
I've lost two jobs in two years here in Ohio, and I feel guilty just accepting the school lunch program for my kids because I don't really like what they're eating, and I don't feel it's healthy, but I need to do that to stretch the food stamps longer.
"I miss school because here I can't be with my friends, " Francesco said.
The fact that she used to give me 250g of sweets each morning going to school from primary school and insisted I ate everything on my plate didn't occur to her that might be the problem.
"I didn't have my first conversation until I was in graduate school, " said Mr. Lutz, whose self-consciousness and half-joking self-deprecation made Woody Allen seem like Albert Brooks.
"If my management team don't think something will improve standards in our school, we disregard it, " she said.
For instance, as important as the health care debate is for our nation, I haven't been able to get any work done on my charter school bill over the past few weeks.
Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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"When my parents got to the school, they were so anxious because they didn't see me, " Wei says.
We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from me and not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.
"My dad wasn't one to do homework with me, to help with school projects, " he says by phone from his home in Puerto Rico.
My only concern about Emma's going to a cram school is that she wouldn't get home until 9:30 p.m.
One of the reasons I didn't act a fool when I was in school was because I feared my father taking the belt to my butt, and that was enough to keep me on the straight and narrow.
My mom's side of the family had moved to Washington during my senior year of college and I wanted--I wasn't ready to go to graduate school yet.
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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.
While I wasn't especially bent on winning for my own sake, I was keenly aware that my family, school, hometown and the local sponsoring newspaper had invested an awful lot of time, cash and care into my trip to Washington, and I did not want to fail them.
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