Word: hellishness
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What is taught in middle school classrooms is certainly not all that is learned there. Teachers and other adults whose profession is guiding these students should realize that these years are also some of the most important for self-discovery and experimentation. For most, these years are hellish due to extreme insecurity, and it is the role of teachers and parents to guide and support these young adults through these difficult times. School officials certainly did not need to exacerbate Blackbear's feelings of isolation by alienating her and encouraging her classmates to follow suit...
...fare better in these settings. "They're young and hope to make a zillion bucks quick," says Cornell's Sims. "And they're more recently out of studying in student unions, where they're used to screening out distractions." For the not-so-young, the open office can be hellish, especially when it gives no quarter to basic needs like privacy and quiet...
...good scenario is that the waiting is the hardest part; that all the corporate warning shots that have made the last month so hellish have already been fired. If there was really bad news out there, goes the reasoning, they would have warned us like Intel did. The bad scenario is that, well, they didn't. And that six months after those high-flyers like Yahoo, Amazon, Cisco, AOL got shot down in April and for the most part stayed down, there's still a whole lot of shakin...
Brandon was well on his way to joining the two-thirds of black males in Baltimore who don't graduate from high school--and perhaps the nearly 50% who end up in jail or on probation--when almost miraculously he was lifted out of that hellish environment and settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood--to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya...
...Brandon was well on his way to joining the two-thirds of black males in Baltimore who don't graduate from high school - and perhaps the nearly 50% who end up in jail or on probation - when almost miraculously he was lifted out of that hellish environment and settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood - to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya...