Word: counselors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movement, and its participants made sexual freedom a kind of new religion. That sort of reverence has been replaced by a more consumerist attitude. In a 1972 cover story, TIME declared, "Teenagers generally are woefully ignorant about sex." Ignorance is no longer the rule. As a weary junior high counselor in Salt Lake City puts it, "Teens today are almost nonchalant about sex. It's like we've been to the moon too many times...
...honest: Finances enter into theequation," says Ann M. Murchison, a counselor atFort Worth Country Day School in Texas. "If youcan get an equal or similar education at anotherhigh-level school and perhaps get a betterfinancial aid package, the other school may bemore tempting...
...pipe bomb, complete with illustrations. In a literature course, he was said to have read from a diary in which he mentioned plans to "kill everybody." Asked at a news conference whether officials should have reacted, Springfield school superintendent Jamon Kent noted that funding cuts have reduced the counselor-to-student ratio to roughly 1 to 700. '"What do kids see every day in the movies?" he asked. "If we detained every student who said, 'I'm going to kill someone,' we would have a large number of students detained...
Morrow's suggestion that the sexual assault of a young boy by his teacher is "an aberrance with something almost sweet about it" disgusted me. As a counselor working with abusive men, I know that if the genders in the Letourneau case were reversed, we would not be having this discussion. A man who did what Letourneau did would be long buried and forgotten. There would be no clemency by the judge and no five-page story in TIME. And rightly so. There is nothing remotely romantic about the rape and sexual assault of a child, and nothing can mitigate...
...necessarily punished, but counseled. If this person doesn't want to share with a counselor, then there's a real reason to carefully terminate the person. You don't want to wait until four men in your department are killed to take it seriously...