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Many educators would agree with Coleman that school perpetuates adolescence by shielding the student from real work experience. But how does a youngster acquire experience when there are not that many paying jobs available...
...quiet Bahama anchorages of an evening, the youngster rowing a dinghy across to a neighboring boat is likely to be looking for a friend working on the same study assignment...
...Plan. The idea of establishing a lower minimum wage for teen-agers has picked up support even among some liberal economists, who believe that forcing employers to pay youths as much as adults only discourages them from hiring the 14% of youngsters aged 16 to 19 who are jobless. Labor leaders argue that establishing a teen-age differential would prompt some employers to fire adult workers and hire youths to replace them. Brennan did propose that a teen-ager's pay be upped to the full adult minimum wage after 13 weeks on the job, but he offered...
...student with lunch money is an obvious target. Gang fights frequently spill over into school buildings. Vandalism alone costs schools $200 million a year nationally. Violent acts are often so seemingly meaningless that they defy reason. Outside Intermediate School 155 in New York's desolate South Bronx, a youngster was nearly stomped to death recently during an argument over a bottle of soda...
...predicts that Miles will eventually integrate its student body "up to a critical mass of maybe 30 per cent--but this is at least ten years away." For now, he is working on an exchange program with predominantly white colleges--including Harvard--as "a way for the white youngster to work out this racism--this part of himself...