Lucia, high-schooler and pyromaniac, has every reason to be tetchy: a dead father, an institutionalized mother, a penniless guardian, an insensitive school administration.
Whatever their misgivings, capitulation to tradition is inevitable, given that representations of the secular life are limited to a stunningly insensitive school principal -- "There was a women's movement, you know" -- and Rochel's navel-flaunting cousin, Leah (Alysia Reiner).
While there are a multiplicity of interrelated barriers to gender equity in education in Zimbabwe, three distinct areas requiring attention if equity is to be achieved have been identified: a gender-insensitive school environment.; a home and community environment that is not adequately supportive; and a policy environment that is insufficient to address the education needs of girls.
As if that's not enough of a burden to bear, she also has to school insensitive people on what it's really like to be a thyroid cancer survivor.
David Levin, a founder of the KIPP charter-school network that runs 125 schools across the United States, with 40,000 students, said the idea that it's a requirement that parents volunteer at school is insensitive to the realities of families.
What's surprising is that the rush to graduate school seems insensitive to either negative publicity or dismal job prospects.
As the pathetic teenager who is caught between a morbidly religious mother (Patricia Clarkson) and a school full of insensitive jerks, Ms. Bettis manages to breathe some life into Mr. King's allegorical character.
In 2001, the United States Commission on Civil Rights criticized the use of Indian images and nicknames by non-Indian schools, calling them "insensitive in light of the long history of forced assimilation that American Indian people have endured in this country".
Le Mesurier disliked both schools intensely, citing insensitive teaching methods and an inability to accept individualism.
On Wednesday, students voted on five options to the Redskins, which school officials decided was insensitive to American Indians.
"Call me crazy, call me insensitive, but I would go back to that school tomorrow," said Mergim Bajraliu, a local high school student, who rushed to the school that morning and who, with his two siblings, went to Sandy Hook.
