My second brother, as a middle school student, went out every evening to the Potong River to play the trumpet.

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As in the second Facebook story making the rounds this week: a Seattle middle school student was visited by the Secret Service because of a status message he wrote about President Obama.

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Saffron Brown, a second-year nursing student at the University of Northumbria, who went into training straight after school, agreed.

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Second, in my opinion the answer depends on whether the student is currently attending a public school or an independent school (otherwise known as private schools or prep schools).

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It was "a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet with one of the world's most successful and knowledgeable businessmen, " according to Anne Thimsen, a second-year student who organized the trip for 27 MBA classmates at the University of Iowa's Tippie School of Management.

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