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...Highland Avenue resident reported that she was told that an ex-boyfriend of hers stated that he was fantasizing about killing her and another ex-girlfriend with...
...fulfilling, intimate relationships would do well to read Martin Buber's I and Thou for the ultimate description of the fullest and healthiest of human and spiritual relationships. Perhaps then they would understand that viewing relationships as extensions of oneself is the ultimate in self-indulgence. VIRGINIA K. GORDON Highland Park...
...many teachers, this new focus is welcome. The forces driving students to distraction have never been stronger. Says Goleman: "If you are a kid who wants to avoid depression or violence and not drop out, academic topics will have nothing to do with it." Marylu Simon, school superintendent in Highland Park, N.J., says many children arrive at school "simply angry from some situation that has happened at home. It affects their ability to come into the school, sit down at their desk and be ready to learn...
...Highland Park sixth-graders are taught to act as cool-headed "peer mediators" who swoop in to resolve tussles among their peers. At Hazel Valley Elementary School, outside Seattle, misbehaving students go to principal Barbara Walton's office not for a scolding but for a questionnaire that asks them to identify the classroom problems they caused and to generate solutions. "It's nice to have discipline that's problem solving and not just punishment," Walton says...
Some parents bristle at such squishy, New Agey techniques. At its worst, they say, emotional learning verges on therapy sessions for third-graders. "I don't want my children talking about my family's problems in the classroom," a Highland Park father said at a school meeting. But EQ gurus such as Professor Roger Weissberg of the University of Illinois in Chicago say students in the best programs have shown not just "more positive attitudes about ways to get along with people" but also improvements in critical- thinking skills. And in New Haven, teenagers say they're witnessing less violence...