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Article: At Life Academy, a better kind of peer pressure.(Features)(Learning)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 27, 2001
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Byline: Stacy A. Teicher Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
OAKLAND, CALIF. -- Life Academy, a new small high school in Oakland, Calif., has sparked enough praise in its first few months to generate a waiting list. But today, Life stinks - literally.
The telltale rotten-egg smell still lingers from the school's first stink bomb. Instead of a swift crackdown from the principal, though, the perpetrators will get an earful from their peers, who are working hard to create a good atmosphere here at Life.
The 250 students chose to be here, after all, largely because they were tired of negative peer pressure, apathy, and occasional ...