61.   Then teacher Rocky Karbel asked a parent, who was also a professional fund-raiser, to help.

62.   These are some of the words that fourth graders in Manhattan scrawled when their teacher asked them to brainstorm about the words gay and lesbian.

63.   They wear their gang beads in school, attaching crucifixes so that teachers cannot ask them to take the beads off.

64.   When she returned to kindergarten, her teacher asked the children what they had done during vacation.

65.   When a teacher asks a question, hands shoot up, and the teacher calls on a student.

66.   When the teacher asked him to stay after class for an explanation, Peterson questioned why he had to wait.

67.   When the teacher asked if anyone else was Jewish, an adopted Korean girl came up to tell about getting gifts each night of the holiday.

68.   Why do you have an Italian last name?, a teacher asked me in the halls of New Utrecht High School.

69.   But the newspaper also quoted a local government education official as saying that three years ago, teachers had asked students to attach fuses to fireworks.

70.   Teachers are not asking for presents, they are asking for understanding and trust.