Word: wayward
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This may come as a surprise, but I and many of my teacher colleagues don't believe in compulsory education. We'd much rather spend our precious time and resources on students who want to be in the classroom. We cannot afford to be surrogate parents to the wayward. I observed that the parent factor was noticeably absent from your article. When parents start acting like grownups and force their children to be accountable, perhaps then things will change...
Luke’s wife Sasha, a glittering socialite of ageless beauty, immerses herself in the “benefit scene”—indiscriminately partaking in drugs, affairs, and social soirées—and his wayward teenage daughter is in imminent danger of following irredeemably in her mother’s footsteps...
...undeniably good, as much as $15 an hour for manual labor in the Hamptons, 10 times the rate for the same work in Tuxpan. But even among the relatively well-off guests at the quinceaera, there has been a heavy price to pay for the opportunity: estranged marriages, wayward children, hostile neighbors here in the U.S. and a beloved hometown in Mexico whose long-term prospects seem to dim with each worker lost to the north...
...some wayward travelers, the cards came in handy during their sojourn in New Haven. Glazer and Capp say that they received serious queries in addition to the jests and drunk dials, as stranded students sought the aid of their UC leaders...
...Snapper A fractious Dublin family faces an awkward fact: the eldest daughter is soon to give birth to an illegitimate baby. This crowded, wayward, funny film, written by Roddy Doyle and directed by Stephen Frears, is a hymn to family values without any of the usual piety. It gives Colm Meaney, as the $ emotionally hard-pressed father, the role of a lifetime...