Word: sayed
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They also don't feel pressed to do more than they're ready for. In a survey by the student newspaper last year, half the seniors said they were sexually active, but students say there's no pressure to lose one's virginity. "People don't make fun of virgins at all," says junior James Wetton. "It's kind of respected." Even among the "Dive Team," a group of six upper-class males whose name has nothing to do with swimming, half the members say they have never...
With many parents working, it is hard for them to monitor their children. Unless they forbid their kids to go out with friends, parents must rely on trust. "I feel that if [my son] hasn't learned the proper values by 16, then we haven't done our job," says a mother. Sometimes it is easier to simply avoid a confrontation. "Usually my parents ask me where I'm going, and I say, 'Out,'" says a senior. "If they keep badgering me, I say I'm going out to get drunk. They think it's very funny...
...students approach an assistant principal and say a girl has brought a gun to school because she wants to scare a boy who continues to sexually harass her. The girl is in a class on the third floor, the student who may have been harassing her is not in this class, and the bell to change classes will ring in 15 minutes. What...
Other student workers aren't so responsible. "Too many times I've had kids come in to school at 10:30 a.m. saying they had to close up at work the night before," says assistant principal Clark. "Students," he says, "find it harder to say no to their boss than to the school." Take, for example, Darrin Cayton, a senior who is desperately trying to turn his life around 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...
...black guy at school. When she would visit her boyfriend at his home, some of the "popular white kids" at school would "make these rude comments about me going to Little Africa, Hershey Hill or Browntown. They were his friends too. It really pissed me off that they would say that behind his back." When Sally's black friends came to visit, new neighbors blamed them, without evidence, for a recent burglary in the neighborhood, according to Sally's mother Rebecca Roth, who graduated from Webster...