Quintero's novel feels like an anthology of high school issues: body image (Gabi's), teen pregnancy (her best friend's), coming out (her other best friend's), strict religion (her aunt's), drug addiction (her father's), poetry, and worries about college (both Gabi's).
U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a Democrat whose district includes the high school, issued a statement requesting ICE to hold off on the teen's deportation so he can graduate.
Reyes Irizarry, the superintendent of Brooklyn and Staten Island high schools, issued a plan recommending that the first fall-semester letter to parents be translated into various languages.
But in high school, the issue of "acting black" was starting to become a persistent irritant.
It's time to stop making the high school dropout issue something that is confronted in the moment; prevention, as early as pre-K learning, is a long-term solution.
Linda Finkel Oceanside, N.Y., April 3, 2010 To the Editor: As a junior in high school, I take issue with "The Myth of Mean Girls".
In Montclair, a committee of volunteers looking at high school sports issues found that "more and more kids wanted to be part of a team," said Mariann Higgins, a parent and volunteer who served on the True Blue Spirit Athletic Initiative.
It is later on, in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades, middle school, and early high school that issues become more challenging, complicated, and important to get right," she says.
