What is the balance? Stress their important role, teach them how to partner with the school, church, etc at home - but hold parents accountable? Would this not teach students that they are not personally accountable for their actions?
"It has to be a process. I don't look at it as being one shot, one year and done,"
focusing on bystanders, mostly at the middle school level,
Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework.
On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
a new site about teen-dom from one of the coolest teen bloggers on the net. This post about surviving high school would make a great project for my seniors ( for underclassmen)