In late July, eager to claim credit, the president bounded onto a high school stage in Raleigh, N.C.
Last year, Somali students at one local high school staged a walkout to protest discrimination after a Somali student was labeled as "Isis" on snapchat.
A classically trained pianist and organist, she discovered jazz by playing the music of Count Basie with her junior high school stage band.
Mr. Kaplan was barely known outside of his high school stage and the Play Group Theater, a nonprofit theater company for children and teenagers, in White Plains.
The actors deliver lines with the bombast of a comic book or the whispery solemnity of a high school staging Hamlet.
"To see that show happen on my high school stage, seeing those kids sing 'Our Time,' I had to be carried out of the theater," he said.
In this case, a disastrous rehearsal for a Massachusetts high school staging of "The Nutcracker" lands Celeste, its teenage leading lady, at home moping with a broken leg.
There is no established ritual for leaving your childhood doctor, whatever I may have imagined as my patient marched across her high school stage.
He averaged 5.5 points, 2.3 assists and 17 minutes in 27 games with Lottomatica Virtus Roma, an experience he described as "humbling" after his star turn on the high school stage.
It was 8 p.m., and Ken Meyer was smiling gamely from a gloomy high school stage at an audience of disgruntled teachers and parents to whom he had been introduced as "a bigwig from Washington," come to Utah to explain President Bush's centerpiece education law.
