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A Screed: Random Drug Testing for High School Students

Posted on March 27, 2013 | 7 Comments
I learned a painful civics lesson tonight: go to school board meetings. I went to a meeting tonight to sign a mandatory “consent” form that will allow my daughter to be randomly drug tested at school in order to either participate in extracurricular […]
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Better Safe than Sorry

Posted on May 9, 2012 | 8 Comments
Last week our little town had a kerfuffle (although some would say it was much more than a kerfuffle). Here’s what I’ve been able to piece together. (Please recall that I’m not an investigative journalist.) Thursday night, Kennedy (our oldest, who is 15) […]
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On Starting High School

Posted on August 22, 2011 | 15 Comments
Dear Kennedy, Today is your first day as a high school freshman. This is madness. When we dropped you off today, I remembered taking you to kindergarten and feeling nervous about leaving you to interface with what looked like menacing fifth graders-“big kids.” And then […]
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