The ninth-grader got to meet the Governor last week in Columbus, Ohio, at the welfare training center where he works.

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One girl I was writing about, ninth-grader Amanda Pena, introduced me to several high school friends who were either pregnant or already mothers.

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The suspected gunman was an honor-roll student at Newtown High School as a ninth-grader in 2007, according to the Danbury News Times website.

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Munn, of New York City, was a ninth-grader at Hotchkiss when she joined a school-supervised trip to China during the summer of 2007, according to her lawsuit.

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Ninth-grader Nicole Zido is already fluent in Cantonese, but her parents, both from Hong Kong, want her to learn Mandarin, China's official language, but Zido says she has her own motivation for wanting to learn the language.

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Ninth-grader Shane Scove(ph) offers this demonstration.

NPR: Chinese Classes Grow in Popularity with U.S. Students