Word: asleep
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...homework and offering credit for rock climbing if it keeps struggling kids in school and out of trouble, massages them through to graduation, maybe even a junior college? Is it worth letting kids work 30 hours a week after school, even if grades suffer and half a dozen are asleep in many a first-period class, in the belief that this is training for the "real world"? Is it worth busing 161 black kids in from St Louis, in a program that provides the school district where they go an extra $2 million in state aid, if parents and some...
...away on the first floor of the pre-1935 extension that she calls "the North Forty" because of its remoteness. The first wave consists of girls who march straight into one of three exam rooms, where they throw down their bookbags, turn out the lights and flop onto cots, asleep before they hit the pillow. Nurse Buss is unfazed. "These kids who get bused in from the city get up before 5," she explains. "They come here to sleep for half an hour before class...
...soft, and he would fall asleep," protests Beth...
...didn't pass out," a girl beside them protests. "I just fell asleep real fast...
While we have groused about Bud in accounting or fallen asleep in car-pool lines, our children have been listening and watching. The stresses of our jobs are spilling over into our home lives, and our kids are worried about us. A new survey, "Ask the Children," conducted by the Family and Work Institute of New York City, queried more than 1,000 kids between the ages of 8 and 18 about their parents' work lives. "If you were granted one wish to change the way your parents' work affected your life," the survey asked kids, "what would that wish...