Teachers And Students

Investigators examining how the Anne Arundel County school system responded to child-abuse complaints also want to know if inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have occurred at schools other than Northeast High School.And they are asking parents, teachers and students to tell them about any such relationships.Alan I. Baron and Eleanor M. Carey, special counsel to the county Board of Education, have set aside two days this month to meet with parents and students who want to talk to them individually or in groups.

He stood, gray and grizzled, with tears dripping off the end of his nose and a rosary around his neck, and said he was sorry."I've said I was sorry from the beginning," Ron Price told Anne Arundel Circuit Court Judge Eugene Lerner. "I'm not going to stand here and make excuses and deny responsibility."Then, he did exactly that.He complained of the Anne Arundel County school system, which "ignored and swept under the carpet" his long history of sexually abusing his students at Northeast High School.

Veteran teachers at North Carroll High School are getting the end-of-summer butterflies that novices usually get.That's because they face a change this year: Class periods will be twice as long, 90 minutes instead of 45, with four class periods a day instead of seven.Courses that used to last a year will last a semester, and those that used to last a semester will last only a quarter -- nine weeks.Can teachers hold the students' attention for 90 minutes? Teachers and students seem willing to give it a try. But at least one student knows her teachers will have to use some new strategies.

"Hey kids, let's put on a show."That said, fictional folks living in the small town of Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland movies of the 1930s would zealously pool their collective talents and throw together a spectacular production in a neighbor's barn.That same line could have been said by members of the Howard County Summer Theatre, whose production of "Annie" premiers at 7:30 tonight at Centennial High School in Ellicott City.The troupe is under the aegis of the county parks department. Laboring for months to produce its annual musical, the 19-year-old company reaches into the community to develop every aspect of a production, with members often wearing more than one hat.Mo Dutterer, for example, not only plays gruff billionaire Oliver Warbucks but doubles as the set designer.

The police cruiser sat conspicuously at the entrance of Annapolis High School's parking lot, its message clear: This school will not tolerate any more violence. Those who cannot comply, turn around now.Serving as a warning to any would-be troublemakers, the county officer kept watch as more than 500 parents, teachers and students filed past Thursday night on their way to a community meeting about escalating school violence.As the two-hour meeting began, Nancy Jones, president of the school's Parent, Teacher, Student Organization, said parents and studentshad grown fearful.

Kim Frock and Stephanie Wiegel want to make Junior Achievers out of communists.More accurately, former communists who are looking forways improve their native economy. In Moscow schools, the Carroll residents showcased America's free-enterprise system before hundreds ofRussian teachers and students.Neither Frock, a North Carroll High social studies teacher, nor Wiegel, a North Carroll senior, questioned their mission's success, but both said it would be some time before their counterparts could take advantage of their lessons.

The principal of North Carroll Middle School was charged last week with striking his 17-year-old son during a November argument at their Westminster home.Richard N. DeLong, 46, has been principal of the890-student school since July 1988 and has been a school system employee for almost 25 years.DeLong was charged with battery, and his son with juvenile battery, by Tfc. Charlene Jenkins of the Westminster barracks of the state police on Friday.The misdemeanor charge, which, under Maryland law, carries no minimum or maximum penalties, stemmed from a Nov. 13 argument between DeLong and his son over car keys, court records show.

CONYERS, Ga. -- Some students started classes Thursday at a new high school in Rockdale County, a bedroom county near Atlanta, unaware they'd been drafted into a bold experiment.Even the unsuspecting, however, quickly got the hint:* "The only thing you need for my class is an open mind," civics teacher Arthur O'Neill told his students. "If you'd like to bring paper and pencil, that's fine. If not, that's fine, too."* Science teacher Debra Russell announced she'll pass out a list of 36 objectives the state says she must cover -- and students will decide which ones they want to learn first.