"I'm not a very serious school nerd.
But when only 1percentt of teenagers report a serious school crime, there is no "plague of school violence".
The other, serious, school of menu writing lists all the ingredients and their sources like film credits.
None of the children knew -- and this surprised their parents, too -- how serious school could be here and how much work it entails.
On every issue of consequence, including economic policy, the environment, and foreign affairs, Hillary Clinton is a distinctly capable candidate: experienced, serious, schooled, resilient.
Trayvon was no hardened criminal, but a 13-year-old with a serious school attendance problem, traceable, he said, to a habit of sleeping late and a strong interest in daytime cooking shows on television.
As with the police, who focus on smaller "quality-of-life" offenses as a way to reduce major crimes, city officials said they intend to crack down on less serious school problems, like graffiti.
Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University, says that with serious school violence so rare, identifying probable offenders in advance is "like trying to find a needle in a haystack".
It took me a while to understand why he'd done this: he actually wanted to be my brother and to prepare me, ignorant bumpkin that I was, for the rigors of a serious school.
