Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 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...
Cady knows he's got a lot of work to do. A goal of his class, he says, is to help students make more informed decisions as they leave high school. "We're trying to help kids get their act together," says Cady. "We want to help them prepare for the next step in their lives." This includes not just college but also "alternative enrichment" options. At last week's open house, Cady told parents he thinks too many kids go to college for no particular reason, then drop out. He wants kids to know there are alternatives, such...
Jonathan's mom Robin Norice, 38, an IRS tax examiner, has had her son in the program since the fourth grade because, she says, "I want him to have the same educational experience as whites"--one of higher quality than he would get in the inner city. Jonathan's neighborhood friends often taunt him for being too good to simply walk the six blocks to Roosevelt High. But "all they do there is fight every day," he says. "You've got to worry about the gangs and what color you're wearing." He appreciates Webster's relative safety...
...assignments at school the day before, a story that frustrates his mother, given his 2.0 grade-point average. "I always tell him, 'You've already got two strikes against you: you're black, and you're male. The only thing that's going to get you where you want to go in life is an education...
Adams rises, holding a laptop computer. "We want to do two things here," he announces. "One, we want to have a lot of fun, and, two, we're gonna answer some of the most serious and fundamental things about life." He gestures to the computer. "You look at this, and you realize its a fairly complex piece of equipment. We recognize that someone fairly intelligent designed it. Our bodies and souls are far more complex than this is... The Bible says God created heaven and earth and created us. What do you guys believe? That is the starting point...