Any teacher knows just how subtle a school community is and how many years it takes to build tradition, trust and collegiality.
Participating schools noted subtle improvements in school culture and cohesion, what the report calls The unifying social effect of having the whole school eating together Much has been made in some quarters of the alleged profligacy of such schemes, and the seeming unfairness that the offspring of better off parents should get their meals for free.
The mental toll is more subtle: the schools have reported a 50 percent increase in stuttering.
Now the inequities in the society are subtler — inferior schools, an absence of employers, a dearth of affordable housing — and the remedies more elusive.
But the rumpus in Britain reflects a deeper and more subtle argument dividing school staff rooms around the world one with broader consequences.
Not one student in that crowd questioned the principal's not-so-subtle point that school staff has remote unfettered access to everything they do, including their location, at any time.
"We also stand in solidarity with the countless forms of sexual violence all over the world, crossing all class and cultural boundaries, overt and subtle, whether in schools, or the military or minority communities".
These ads appear in all kinds of overt and subtle ways throughout the school environment: on vending machines, in school publications, and on school-sponsored Internet sites, as well as via free samples and branded fundraisers.
While we can be fairly sure that the "30 +1 year old", dressed in a subtle homage to her school uniform, had to move schools and had her heart broken before she was 18, we can be equally assured that she did not invent Revels or "onions that cry when we cut ourselves".
She belongs to a subtle, less-is-more school: she is the Janet Malcolm of broadcasting.
