Being late to class can wreck the morning flow at school, provoking confrontations and derailing lesson plans.
The idea is that war has moved beyond the battlefield into an all-encompassing struggle in economics, politics, and culture, along with old-school physical confrontation.
It's a little like bringing your uncle to school for your confrontation with the class bully.
The play, to be directed by Mr. Rapp for the Off Broadway theater, is about a New York writer who travels to a small American town to defend one of his young-adult novels that has been banned by the school board, a confrontation that turns into a heated debate about religious beliefs and censorship.
DiSalvo's poster child for unions bringing bad outcomes to schools is the confrontation between the Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the fall of 2012.
A confrontation at school was planned, and the details were texted.
Mr. Morris, who was forced to resign two years later after his dalliance with a prostitute came to light, probably did Mr. Clinton more harm than good with his recommendations to embrace bite-sized issues like school uniforms and avoid confrontation with Republicans.
He's not tempted by the Michael Moore school of stunts and confrontations, and his film is the better for it.
While Mr. Bruno, an old-school politician, could dispel confrontation with folksy humor, neither Mr. Skelos nor Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, is particularly yielding in his approach.
I have mediated plenty of fights, verbal confrontations, and school disruptions due to conversations conducted via social media.
