Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mental health of their students, even though every student gets inoculated against measles. Meantime, says James Garbarino, author of Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them, "the number of kids who need help has shot up significantly." In California there's only one counselor--to say nothing of a trained psychologist--for every 1,000 students...
...another apparently unprecedented move, the Faculty members of the Docket Committee have hired a lawyer--a development Berkowitz learned when he noticed an e-mail message from Fox concerning Wednesday's meeting had been forwarded to counselor Swope...
...City, O.J.), with noisy experts on tap, interrupting one another from different quadrants of the screen. We round up the usual suspects--in the current case, our cretinous popular culture; the Internet, with its rancid cul-de-sacs; violent movies; idiot television; vicious rap; ubiquitous sex. One high school counselor cast a wide net on MSNBC: "It's all those things, ekcedra, ekcedra, ekcedra." The "ekcedra" includes adolescence itself, a form of temporary insanity that in America is rendered even crazier by all of the above...
...five points or seven--the more points the better. And, yes, he did urge school boards to apply for federal grants that would put armed police officers in schools. But in the face of the carnage, he mostly dropped the wonkery and assumed the role of National Grief Counselor. "It is very important to explain to children, all over America, what has happened," he said, "and to reassure our own children that they are safe." If anyone thought it odd that the government's chief executive officer was advising parents on what to whisper to their children as they tucked...
...writers are a counselor and associate director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, respectively...