I know a lot of students with good grades who just don't believe they can afford it.
Maybe you've had a different experience – maybe people who read, who get good grades, who listen in class, are celebrated in your school.
There are 180 students, in sixth through eighth grades, who can take yoga and play in a jazz band in addition to studying academic subjects.
I was definitely the kid who worked really hard to get good grades, who got all my homework done before I watched TV".
The cast, known as the Wingspan Players, is made up of youngsters in 6th to 11th grades who have spent their mornings in theater classes.
In a faint echo of the Laura Spence affair, John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, is determinedly fighting the corner of a state school pupil with good grades who wasn't granted a place.
She also began dating Craig Clements-Rabbitt, a morose stoner with bad grades who felt even more out of place in the friendly Midwest than he did in his preppie New Hampshire hometown.
Despite sharply reducing state testing requirements for Texas high school students, the 83rd Legislature brought only conditional relief from high-stakes exams for students in lower grades, who take a total of 17 state tests before going to high school.
"A lot of people felt like they really needed to be heard on this," recalled Dan Janzen, a mild-mannered freelance copywriter with children in first and third grades who leads the school's development committee and devised the price increase.
Over all, 70.2 percent of the 56,518 students in third through eighth grades who were told to attend summer school and did so last year were promoted, even though fewer than half passed the end-of-summer tests.
Atoosa Rubenstein, editor in chief of Seventeen, said the competition looks for "the good girl, the one with good grades who is logging in the hours studying, who is well rounded and has integrity".
