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By Susan Gvozdas | March 23, 2008
Nick Sabo, a South River High School senior, recently received his yearbook order forms, including ballots to vote for senior superlatives, such as most popular or class clown. He hardly recognized any of the nominees' names. "He didn't know anybody, and it broke my heart," said his mother, Mary Ann Sabo, who lives in Edgewater. "I guess students are afraid." Sabo was born with cerebral palsy, a brain injury that put him in a wheelchair, slurs his speech, and made him an outcast among his peers.
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By Laura Barnhardt | September 16, 2007
They were pioneers, among the first students to be racially integrated as kindergartners in Baltimore's public schools. Fifty years later, what the former students of Franklin D. Roosevelt Elementary (Public School No. 18) remembered was the smell -- and taste -- of paste, old Ms. Buisick, the coatroom they'd hide in before classes, the old drive-in theater across the street. And the Mussenden twins. No one had forgotten Christine and Caryl Mussenden, the vivacious duo who, it seemed, were friends with everyone.
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By Julie Scharper | May 11, 2007
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Tonight, Caroline Merrey plans to put on her academic gown - gingerly, because she is still sore - place the black cap on her blond hair and join her classmates for the evening commencement ceremony in Lane Stadium at Virginia Tech. As she graduates, she will think about her loved ones sitting in the audience - her parents who drove down from their Parkville home, her boyfriend who flew in from Chicago. But, she says, she will also think about those not in the stands, the professors and classmates who died on a Monday morning not quite four weeks ago. On that day, a student killed two people in a dorm, then burst into the building where Merrey was attending class and shot and killed 30 others before taking his own life.
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By Melissa Healy | November 10, 2006
Truth sometimes hurts. But for children closing in on adolescence, a firm grasp on the truth about one's standing with classmates and peers can be healthy, even when it does hurt a bit. A new study has found that children who can accurately assess how much - or little - their peers like them are less likely to develop symptoms of depression, including sadness and difficulties concentrating or sleeping. By comparison, children with unrealistically rosy or unfoundedly gloomy views of their standing appear more likely to be headed toward depression.
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By CASSANDRA A. FORTIN | June 4, 2006
To say that Brandon Jones was surprised when he received the Principal's Award at Harford Technical High School's senior awards banquet Wednesday is a gross understatement. In fact, he was overwhelmed. And when his classmates gave him a standing ovation upon hearing his named announced as recipient of the award, he was even more moved. "What a way to leave high school," the 18-year-old Havre de Grace resident said. "I won't ever forget how awesome I felt seeing my classmates clapping and cheering for me."
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By SONJA CROSBY | June 4, 2006
Twenty-one years ago, I was a City College Knight. City College, or the Castle on the Hill as it is still known, was a high school in which Latin was everyone's second language and Thanksgiving was more about the annual City-Poly football game than eating turkey and cranberry sauce. For some of my classmates, these years in high school included such happy milestones as the prom, the big homecoming games and graduation. For me, on the other hand, high school was a series of unrequited loves, being a wallflower at school dances, being picked on by a bully and countless hours doing of all things ... studying!
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By Joe Nawrozki | August 18, 2003
Every two months, they come from Baltimore-area neighborhoods, the Eastern Shore and Virginia to sustain two treasures - their youth and enduring friendship. On this steamy summer day, the rugged platoon shows up once more, some using canes, one with a hearing aid but everybody with an attitude that seems to shout, "Ain't life grand!" The surviving members of Kenwood High School's Class of 1941, bonded by hardships from the Great Depression and World War II, gather at Sanders' Corner Restaurant in the Loch Raven watershed.
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By Jonathan D. Rockoff | April 11, 2003
Dumbarton Middle School in Rodgers Forge has suspended indefinitely a sixth-grade pupil who brought a toy gun to school and told classmates it was real, school officials said yesterday. Assistant Principal Michael Etzel said he removed the boy from his first-period class on Tuesday, after a classmate reported the remarks. "At no time was there a threat to any kids in the school," Etzel said yesterday. The boy, whose name was not released by school officials for confidentiality reasons, will be suspended until he receives a hearing from the school board.
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By MICHAEL OLESKER | September 8, 2002
POOR PARRIS N. Glendening. The governor of Maryland begins to take his leave of office by taking leave of his senses. He attempts to strike a bold pose as belated conqueror of William Donald Schaefer and instead merely solidifies his own previous image. For Glendening, it is the image of the school nerd who thought he'd find popularity by running for class president, and instead found the older guys still mocking him. They mocked his spending habits, and his dating habits, too, and did it in public so that it hurt.
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By Douglas Lamborne | April 16, 2001
GENE SOMERS remembers being routed from his bunk at 2 in the morning and forced to stand at attention until someone confessed to instigating a water fight. It was his Plebe Summer at the Naval Academy, 1937. Water fights were among the shenanigans common at that time. Somers, an Annapolis resident, also recalls the struggle some of his classmates had with drill. "It was amazing how difficult it was for some," he said. "Left foot, right foot, following the beat of the drum. Some couldn't do it. Remarkable when you think about it."