Word: needfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after wasting his first three years of high school. Darrin realizes he wants to go to college, so he's working hard in his classes, hoping to do well enough to get into Webster University. But Darrin also works at McDonald's 30 to 40 hours a week. "I need the money to do the things I want to do," he explains. "But I'm always tired...
...employers to assign each student a "workplace mentor"--someone at work, maybe even the boss, who looks after the student's academic life, makes sure he or she is going to school on time and is making good grades, and who can help a student get reduced hours if need be. The initial response of business people has been positive, and Clark hopes School First will happen by the end of the year...
...turns to his grade book. "I need a sturdier implement to add all this extra credit...
...blackboard, Cady divides four-year colleges into three groups: competitive colleges, including those in the Ivy League; less competitive ones, among which he includes the private, local St. Louis and Washington universities; and state universities, such as Missouri and Truman State. "You need to have a conversation with your parents about what you can afford," Cady tells them. So, next to his competitive and less competitive lists, he writes $30,000. "And this would be just for tuition." Next to Truman State, he writes $8,000 and calls it "the best value in Missouri." At Truman, he adds...
...older kids who are so into Young Life and so into Terri and Herm, and you think, Wouldn't it be fun to be friends with them? And then you get in there, and they're really Christian [meaning Evangelical]. I came to feel, why do we need this hard-core group with such an important place in our high school...