Holy Family High School Glendale

Gabrielle Sanchez-Goyen, a 13-year-old junior at Holy Family High School in Glendale, had looked forward to the social justice class she had to take this fall. But she had no idea just how painful its lessons would be. The instructor of the class wanted students to play the "color game," a controversial approach to teaching about racism that involves assigning students to one of four rigidly defined social classes, with the lower classes expected literally to kowtow to the upper classes.

Gabrielle Sanchez-Goyen, a 13-year-old junior at Holy Family High School in Glendale, had looked forward to the social justice class she had to take this fall. But she had no idea just how painful its lessons would be. The instructor of the class wanted students to play the "color game," a controversial approach to teaching about racism that involves assigning students to one of four rigidly defined social classes, with the lower classes expected literally to kowtow to the upper classes.

Francis (Frank) Xavier Killmond, a longtime actor who portrayed a butler on the soap opera "General Hospital" for the past six years, has died at a Woodland Hills hospital. He was 58. A Woodland Hills resident, Killmond died Friday of cancer, his wife, Mary Evelyn Killmond, said. Born in Baltimore, Md., Killmond earned a bachelor's degree in business in 1955 from Philadelphia's Villanova University, where he performed in college theater. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S.

The best and brightest high school graduates from the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys are honored each year as valedictorians. Various methods are use to choose the honorees, which produced up to 30 at some schools. Five valedictorians, including a set of twins, share their thoughts as they depart their familiar campuses in search of higher education. Fareed Elcott Residence: Encino School: Birmingham High School, Van Nuys GPA: 4.

Ray Otero didn't know what he was getting into. Ten years ago, the sociology instructor at Occidental College developed an innovative approach to teaching about racism through a role-playing exercise he called "The Color Game." Six years later, a documentary on the game produced by a Los Angeles television station won an Emmy and four years after that, a "CBS Schoolbreak Special" based on the game aired nationally.