Law school thrusts hundreds of type-A individuals accustomed to high performance into classes that are graded on make-or-break-you curves.
A scholarship girl at a nifty prep school is thrust into a world of privilege in this novel.
Her parents had both left school prematurely, thrust into the world of work by the death of their parents and a shortage of money.
When I met with Rahman Branch, the new director of the Mayor's Office of African American Affairs, he recounted times when the nature of his previous job as a high school principal thrust him out of his office and onto the doorstep and into the homes of truant students to engage parents.
But then reporters showed up outside their school building, thrusting microphones and cameras at them.
A grieving Ms. Patelson, a conservatory-trained cellist who taught in public high schools, was thrust into ownership knowing little about business.
Spotty oversight of California's vocational schools was thrust into the spotlight after a series of recent reports by The Bay Citizen revealed that the Postsecondary Bureau had failed to aggressively investigate complaints, monitor the quality of educational programs or to track and punish unaccredited schools and diploma mills.
Meanwhile, a friend who sent her child to a $17,000-a-year 17,000-a-year 17,000-a-yeart told me that at her school, one child thrust another child's head in the toilet.
It comes amid controversy over free schools, which were thrust into the spotlight last month when Derby's Al-Madinah school was called dysfunctional by Ofsted and threatened with closure.
Yet within hours, the school outing had been thrust to the centre of a delicately poised and increasingly bitter political battle over the future of gay marriage in California.
A12 Little Changed Since Columbine Little beyond the walls of Columbine High School in suburban Denver has changed since last April 20, when a killing rampage thrust the school into the vortex of national debates over gun rights, parental responsibilities and cultural violence.
