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HOUSTON - Hambrick Mid
dle School student David Aceve
do made the mistake earlier this
year of proudly showing his .25-
caliber semiautomatic weapon to
another student. He was expelled.
Now, Acevedo and 12 fellow
teens — all kicked out of the Al-
dine Independent School District
on weapons, drug or assault alle
gations — are getting one more
chance to make up for their mis
takes and get back into school.
Project Recovery, a first-time
program started this semester at
Aldine ISO's Lane Center in far
north Harris County, uses a struc
tured, highly disciplined ap
proach to trying to build self-es
teem in problem students like
Acevedo.
Some of the program's rules
border on boot camp-style disci
pline: strict hair-length code, and
)oys must wear dress shirts and
ties. No jewelry is allowed.
All teachers and staff members
must be addressed as either
ma'am or sir.
Students will stand at their
desks at the beginning of class
until told to sit by their instruc
tors, and they will move to the
side in hallways as they pass
adults.
All students perform commu
nity service, such as picking up
trash along highway medians and
at parks, repairing vandalism,
working at a food bank and mow
ing yards and performing simple
maintenance for the elderly, and
local churches.
Students going to the school
are picked up by a special bus at
their doorstep, and taken home
the same way.
But most of all, say the director
of the program and several in
structors, Project Recovery tries to
treat the students — whom some
teachers might find intimidating
- with respect.
So far, students and instructors
say, the pnrogram appears to be
working.
Acevedo, 14, who says
"bunches" of fellow students take
guns to school daily, says he's
staying out of trouble thanks to
Project Recovery.
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school I'd be skipping class, get-
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to do but learn," Acevedo said as
he pored over a textbook on
Texas geography.
As for his classmates who still
deal in troublemaking exploits: "I
don't care no more about them,
really. I don't do the things I used
to do," Acevedo said.
Another student, a 12-year-old
boy who was expelled for fight
ing, says he appreciates the indi
vidual help the program's staff
gives.
Richard Ruhman, project coor
dinator, said the program grew
out of a commitment by Aldine
administrators to work with
problem students instead of "just
putting them out on the street,"
or in an already established alter
native education program that
deals with students with less se
vere discipline problems.
Students encouraged to enter
the voluntary program are those
expelled for using or selling
drugs, assaulting another student
or teacher, or for being caught
with a weapon on campus.
When the student is expelled,
parents are given a brochure ex
plaining the program and encour
aged to enroll the student. So far,
the parents of 13 of the 15 stu
dents expelled so far this school
semester have taken up the offer.
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By Jason Brown
'Dittoheads' can dine with Rush Limbaugh
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WASHINGTON — Lunch is served two
ways at Blackie's House of Beef — with Rush
Limbaugh or without.
The meat-and-potatoes restaurant about a
mile from the White House is one of a growing
number nationwide to feature a "Rush Room,"
where the faithful can dine without missing
the blustery conservative talk show host's
midday radio show.
They're listening to Rush over ribs at Barbe
cue Shack in Florence, Ky., and over bratwurst
atBernkastel Festhaus in Daytona Beach, Fla.
At Taste of Texas, a Houston steak joint,
he's piped in to diners on individual speakers
at each table.
At Blackie's, as Limbaugh rails loudly over
the sound system, customers sit in a room dec
orated with red-white-and-blue bunting and
listen quietly, munching on burgers and steak.
There are fax machines set up for them to
send their views to the show, although on this
day the machines sat dormant.
Limbaugh isn't for everyone.
Many find his remarks about "environmen
talist wackos,” "feminazis" and "commie libs"
more than a little offensive. That's why Black
ie's only seats people in the Rush Room if they
request it.
Those who do are diehard fans — or, in
Limbaugh lingo, dittoheads. Most find it a
heady experience to be around others who talk
the Rush talk.
Bill Bates of Olney, Md., loves the guy. So
when his friends threw him a 60th birthday
party recently, they knew just where to hold it.
"I think it's wonderful, because I am a great
Rush admirer," said Bates. "It's so comforting
to think that somebody in the public eye like
Rush believes in what we do."
Rush Rooms started springing up sponta
neously in 1990. Since then. Rush has plugged
some on the radio and on his TV show.
"The Rush Room in Washington, we're
very proud of it," said Kit Carson, Limbaugh's
chief of staff. "We get faxes and letters from it
all the time."
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"We are very proud that the
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