Volume 40, Number 21 · December 16, 1993
Cootie Power
By Alison Lurie
The People in the Playground
by Iona Opie
Oxford University Press, 240 pp., $23.00
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
by Barrie Thorne
Rutgers University Press, 237 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Most readers of this magazine, though they may have enjoyed childhood, were not totally happy in elementary school. I am reminded of this when I see children waiting for the yellow bus on a misty autumn morning. They look serious, tensed up, uncertain of what lies ahead. They know that even if events in the classroom are predictable, recess will be an interlude of nearanarchy in which anything can happen. They may be admired or mocked, attacked or welcomed, know sudden triumph or crushing humiliation.
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