Teaching tolerance.A group of Middleton Middleton, city (1991 pop. 51,373), Rochdale metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area on the Irk River. Manufactures include cotton, silks, chemicals, plastics, and soap. , Wis adv. 1. Certainly; really; indeed. v. t. 1. To think; to suppose; to imagine; - used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. ., high school students are out to prove that tolerance rules at their school. Some gay and lesbian students and their allies have started a drive to get more than half the campus's 1,600 students and 200 teachers to sign a pledge promising to accept people of all racial backgrounds and sexual orientations sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. . The campaign has energized the social consciousness of the school, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Lisa Aarli, a teacher who advises the group. "It's given a lot of kids something to grab on to for a lot of different reasons," she said. "The kids on the margins are being pulled into something big and powerful in the school." |
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