Word: neglectment
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...university: The large college and the large university have become a standard habitat for many of these students. The environment is often quite impersonal. There is little sense of a united community of scholars and students and administrators. The impact of greater size has been increased by the recent neglect of the undergraduate in favor of graduate students, research, and external service...
...League's neglect, Miss Switzer added, is even more serious for the handicapped students who are admitted. The schools continue to construct buildings which students confined to wheelchairs cannot use, and their health services do not have "daily relationship" with the nearest Rehabilitation Center...
...faith in the schools," says a consultant to the Office of Economic Opportunity, "but they know the schools are doing a lousy job on their kids and feel trapped." It is also true, of course, that many ghetto parents expect the schools to perform miracles in overcoming their own neglect of family obligations...
...camp hoping to find a few, but of course finds herself instead. A ragtag regiment of girls from eleven to 13, led by captains and lieutenants of 16 or so, pitch camp for two weeks on the Isle of Wight. They leave half their supplies behind on the boat, neglect to put the kettle on for tea; on the second morning, all that is left to feed the whole Brownie troop is eight slices of toast. In the brief pauses between muddled meals, the Guides manage to lose each other, usually during a hilarious drill called "stalking," in which they...
...other cases, economic, social and legal problems combine to form a "poverty syndrome." One student assistant arranged for the probation under his supervision of two parents accused of child neglect, helped them to arrange their debt problems, and subsequently to obtain hospital care. "Most of us no longer make snide cocktail party comments about welfare mothers; we have some insight into their problems," one staff member comments...