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...laid-back leg of the threesome, Ginny quit her job as a high school English teacher after Hilary was born, and now works two days a week at the Avon public library. She is the one who races around to the parade of after-school lessons and practices. George had a grueling commute--two hours each way, leaving on the 5:35 a.m. train--but on evenings and weekends he was all Hilary's, supervising homework assignments, shooting hoops. You can see the closeness of the father-daughter bond in the photographs around Hilary's room. Hilary and George skiing...
...department sponsors after-school programs at the Baker House in Dorchester run by the Rev. Eugene Rivers. In one program, at-risk teenagers learn critically important computer skills alongside lessons in black history and culture. Another program provides high school students with the opportunity to be both taught and mentored by Harvard undergraduates and faculty...
...think the best advice for their parents is to understand that they cannot raise their children alone. Instead, they should get as much help as possible. They need to seek out good schools, energetic teachers, dedicated speech and physical or occupational therapists, willing baby sitters and all the after-school and weekend programs the community offers. These beautiful, complicated children are exhausting. The adage "It takes a village" more than applies in raising them. DANIEL J. PATTERSON Chicago...
...seek out all the other black kids on campus.” He is the only black student in his blocking group. He is not active in any black student organizations. He is a member of a final club, the Fly. He is involved in public service—after-school tutoring of elementary school children. These are kids who need role models, he says—black role models. “This is how I belong to my community,” he says. Rather than having an identity imposed on him, “this...
...abundance. The BYFMC began as a offshoot of the city summer jobs program, with the modest mandate of covering up graffiti on shop fronts in Roxbury. Twelve years and over one hundred murals later, the Crew has expanded into a full-year program combining the goals of urban renewal, after-school program and art school...