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Snoops. (Making a Difference).(Brief Article)
The Cherry Creek school district in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, has a "zero tolerance" conduct code that bars students from engaging in "violent and aggressive behavior." On March 22nd, a playground monitor noticed seven fourth graders at Dry Creek Elementary School in Centennial pointing their fingers like guns during some army-and-aliens horseplay. The youngsters were promptly marched to the principal's office, where Principal Darci Mickle reprimanded them. Mrs. Mickle also contacted their parents and asked them to pick up the supposedly violent and aggressive finger-pointers, who, without delay, were denied recess privileges for a week.
Before the parents arrived, however, Principal Mickle quizzed the kids about any guns their moms and dads might have at home. The family-invasive interrogation placed at least one of the youngsters in an agonizing position. The father of Connor Andrew, 10, had once worked as a licensed hunting guide. As reported in the May 13th Washington Times, Andrew "had been warned not to discuss his father's firearms in front of other children lest they become curious and ask to see them." Tom between obeying his dad and obeying the principal, "he chose his parents."
When Mr. Andrew later asked ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 13, 2002 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Lukacs, Paul March 6, 1996 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Sunset Schneider, Sara March 1, 2009 700+ words
THE HAIRPINS OF West Dry Creek Road require a different kind of Wine...serendipitous encounters that happen only in Dry Creek. Score the ultimate picnic spot A...m sold. The cheese case at the Dry Creek General Store yields some keepers...
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- Magazine article from: Sunset MacNeil, Karen March 1, 1998 700+ words
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- DEMETER AND DRY CREEK COLLABORATE TO ENHANCE DISEASE RESISTANCE OF FRUIT CROPS
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 5, 1996 700+ words
...that it has signed an agreement with Dry Creek Laboratories, Inc. of Modesto, CA...fungal pathogens affecting these crops. Dry Creek is developing genetically improved rootstock...California and the Pacific Northwest. Dry Creek will perform all of the research and...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) April 12, 2001 700+ words
THE DRY CREEK TRAIL in the Olympic Mountains often...miles and turn around at the crossing of Dry Creek, where a crucial bridge was badly damaged...attempt to cross on this bridge. Still, Dry Creek is a good spring hike through second...
Source: HighBeam Research, Snoops. (Making a Difference).(Brief Article)