Word: older
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neither should we. It's gonna kill us when were older," Christy responds...
...mentoring program was added. It had a "goal-oriented purpose," says Bard. "It's become known that one-on-one mentoring with an older person is good for teens at risk." Karen's mentor, an area graduate student training to be a social worker, is the only person outside of school who really helps...
Like all children I once wanted to be older than I was. I remember I desired it with such obtuseness that when I overheard an adult comment that exercise makes children grow faster I spent an entire afternoon walking to and fro in a vain attempt to become eight sooner than scheduled. The extent of my folly eventually dawned on me, but years later I discovered that Einstein's special theory of relativity does predict that an observer moving quickly with respect to the surroundings is, in effect, travelling into the future. Of course for the effect to have been...
Being a little older and a little wiser, this time around I did not attempt time travel. I opted instead for idolizing adulthood, making it out to be the opposite of everything I disliked in those my own age. To me all adults were kindly creatures who cared nothing for the vile pursuits of popularity and appearance and who worried only about truly important things. They read "The Economist", knew all about electronics and conversed about biology and classical history. I thought I saw in adults the self-control, compassion and intellectual commitment that I missed in my peers...
...many older Americans, all this sounds deeply suspicious. How can kids feel increasingly safe in a country where school shootings have become almost as routine as fire drills? There doesn?t seem to be any one reason for teenagers? relative calm; rather, it's a combination of practical and psychological factors. In the wake of Columbine et al, schools have bulked up security ? in part to quell students? fears of violence, but also to calm parental nerves. So maybe it?s not such a surprise that many students feel safe: Surveillance cameras, metal detectors and daily pat-downs do tend...