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So much homework, so little time. Sigh.

Seventh-graders lobby for revival of study halls

By Peter Schworm
Globe Staff / December 11, 2005

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Their backs already were sore from lugging home textbooks every school night, their brains weary from long evenings of essays and exponents. So when Norton Middle School officials eliminated two study halls each week, three seventh-grade girls decided they had had enough. (Full article: 1028 words)

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