That the compassion manipulation eliminated class differences in prosocial behavior suggests that upper- and lower-class individuals do not necessarily differ in their capacity for prosocial behavior.
South Side, like many schools in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, has eliminated class ranking on transcripts, because administrators believe a rank reduces students to a number and prefer that colleges take a close look at student transcripts and consider the broader student.
The students' decisions set a record at the school, where high-achieving seniors take five Advanced Placement courses and town officials recently eliminated class rankings because so many students had such high grades.
Illinois is closing the Joliet Correctional Center, an old prison that once held George Nelson, known as Baby Face, and is saving $5.4 million by eliminating classes for inmates beyond courses to pass a high school equivalency test, said Sergio Molina, a prisons spokesman.
Krauthammer argued that authorities should work backward and "eliminate classes of people who are obviously not suspects". In the category of the innocent, Krauthammer would place children younger than 13, people older than 60 and "whole ethnic populations" starting with "Hispanics, Scandinavians and East Asians..
Their justification for eliminating classes (and educators) that taught young people about Mexican American history and culture?
She stood in the auditorium, explaining that she now has to teach double the number of general music classes and give 125 children individual music lessons due to larger scheduling shifts that came from eliminating classes like home economics.
Mr. Olstein said he would like to eliminate class-action lawsuits entirely.
"The Republicans want to substantially curtail or eliminate class actions," he said.
Thomas Moore, the principal at Wethersfield High School in Connecticut, said the school is considering eliminating class ranking but not the valedictorian tradition.
