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...Professor King has been watching the test tubes more than the students. My 37 years in a suburban high school indicate that he need not worry about today's pupil becoming a "tired old man" from "a 17-hour day of classwork, school activities and homework" [Feb. 17]. "Day" should read "week." Tired all right, but rarely from study-instead, from boys, girls, telephone, cars, TV, sports, clubs, spastic dancing, slumber parties, clothes, hair grooming, parties, girls, boys...
Every school, of course, has its share of youths who loaf their way to a diploma. But in a speech to a conference of the American Chemical Society in Manhattan last week, King contended that the serious student puts in a 17-hour day of classwork, school activities and homework. "No one else in the population works that many hours day after day," he insisted. After four years of this, "Mr. Good Student is no longer Mr. Good Student-he is a tired old man." He has also "been robbed of several years when he should have had time...
...centers try to convince the girls that motherhood does not mean the end of their earlier ambitions, and many respond surprisingly well to academic courses that they had ignored before. In Los Angeles, for example, students at the centers generally do better in their classwork than they did in high school...
...despite the easy availability of contraceptives, school officials are coming to realize that dismissal from class is neither a humane nor a sensible solution to the problems of pregnant girls. More and more urban school systems are setting up educational centers where the girls can keep up their regular classwork while they are preparing for motherhood...
Another plan they endorse would open up more internship programs during the school year "along the lines of the Neighborhood Law Office." This would blend "classwork with actual legal participation...