"A lot of the children scoot and cycle to the school and used to shoot past me, and the parents were always saying I should get a scooter, " said Mrs Gilks.

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Before the headline-grabbing school prayer battle, which began as a shoot-from-the-hip challenge to her older son's Baltimore public junior high school, O'Hair had no assets of her own to speak of.

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He was probably hoping that school attendance and nutritional levels would shoot up in the north because of the scheme, as they did in the south.

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"We are not going to put our kids in schools with shields and send them to school in bulletproof backpacks and let the good guys shoot it out with the bad guys over our kids' heads, " Watts said.

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She hasn't been out on a shoot in a couple of weeks, despite high demand for high school senior portraits.

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In the pre-shoot hair-and-makeup session, Ms. Moore chats with her subjects about "school and boys, " she said.

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For high school seniors looking into applying to colleges both early decision and on regular admission, the idea of going into school with a business idea that could one day potentially be the next Facebook is enough to make anyone want to shoot for the stars and begin launching their own company.

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