Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...health-care and social systems to such a degree that when they get on this van, they have no ID, no address, no nothing," says Ellen Flynn, 44, Street Beat's nurse practitioner. "We try to handle everything on their first visit because you don't know when you will see them again or if you will see them again...
Mary is not so fortunate. She is one of three people that night who learn they have tested positive. She starts crying as Russo tries to comfort her. "You guys always listen," Mary sobs. "You always find the time to let us know you care." They counsel her for about 15 minutes and then drive the van to a McDonald's for a hamburger and a Coke. Afterward they have no choice but to drop her off on the street, where she heads back to work...
Some blacks and a lot of whites are concerned that all-black schools amount to debilitating racial isolation. Stan Conner, whose grandchild attends Dumas, concedes, "You don't know whites on a personal basis. You grow up more isolated." Sociologist Coleman believes integrated summer camps could help offset the classroom separation. Students themselves are unconcerned. "We're not prejudiced," shrugs eighth-grader Keith Harris, 12. "White kids are welcome here...
...good teachers, discipline and curriculum. And it is parental involvement that makes Dumas special. Upwards of 60 parents (all women) volunteer on any given day to work as teacher's aides, help out in the cafeteria or cut up frogs for biology class. It's 9 a.m., and they know what their children are doing. So does Sylvia Peters, who tries to keep discreet tabs on the sexual activity of her seventh- and eighth-graders. She proudly cites a lone pregnancy during her tenure...
...mind and effect a junction between purpose and artistry. I still have a vivid memory, for example, of the way she slowly read the passage from Swift in which Gulliver was tied down by the Lilliputians. Each word became part of a picture in the mind. I don't know how long it took Swift to write this particular description, but it helped open young minds to the kind of imagery that belongs to creative expression. We had the same sense of literary splendor when our teacher read -- so carefully and lovingly -- from Thomas Hardy or the Brontes, or when...