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Student art shows in the Carpenter Center used to feel like they had been organized by an egalitarian elementary school principal. Each class was allotted a few walls (big kids in the lobby, beginners upstairs), and each professor played the dutiful homeroom teacher, making sure that everyone had a piece in the show. As might be expected, this approach almost always produced a rambling, diluted exhibition, in which even the most competent work couldn't overcome the welter of timid figure drawings and self-conscious photographs of somebody's brooding roommate. Having spent hours in the studios of my friend...
...school, and you're pretty nervous, but outside the building you meet this girl named Jessie who gives you the lay of the land ("Watch out for Nicole." "Who's Nicole?" "Don't worry, you'll find out sooner than you'd want to"). Now, do you walk into homeroom by Jessie's side or go it alone? She's nice, but is it smart to commit to a best friend already? What...
Rather than police officers--who represent authority to an age group just beginning to challenge that--homeroom teachers and peers teach Life Skills. In place of long-term harm, which adolescents do not take seriously, it focuses on the immediate adverse effects of drugs. The 15 sessions of improvisation and discussion are meant to make students more confident, more assertive and more discerning about the messages they get from pop culture and from classmates. It appears to work: 4,446 Newark, New Jersey, seventh-graders in a Life Skills program tracked through graduation engaged in only half the drug, tobacco...
Will it do little hellions any good to be exposed to such sentiments in homeroom? Maybe not. Congress begins each day with a prayer, and look how it behaves. But a society should know where the things it holds dear come from, and why there are limits to its own actions. School is one place to learn such things, and one way of learning is to repeat the lesson daily...
Today was our homeroom Valentine's party--black tie, of course. Katie's mother brought elegant pink-frosted cupcakes which were sublime...