On "You Have to Go to College," one of his first songs, Toledo runs through a series of classic high-school preoccupations, from losing touch with friends to what it means to grow up and become a "decent human being".
And when we're talking about education -- how effectively students are learning, or how long they remain in school -- the preoccupation with rankings is even less appropriate, for several reasons.
There are 56 high school students in the PreOccupations Club this year.
One indisputably common element between the two schools is the preoccupation with the problem of validity, or Geltung, which is arguably the systematic core of Neo-Kantianism in general (Krijnen 2001, 84).
Then he turned to public school teachers and the silly preoccupation with class size.
Last year a teenage girl from my senior school committed suicide after a preoccupation with weight and body image prompted her to develop an eating disorder.
There was a preoccupation at the school to protect the teacher and much less interest in reaching out to the three students".
It also reflected his continuing interest in another preoccupation of the Annales school, "mentalities," which Duby defined as "the shifting set of images and unargued certitudes to which the members of a given group refer".
Basketball, which Hornsby played in high school, has long been a musical preoccupation, as evidenced by his concert-favorite "Rainbow's Cadillac," about a playground legend.
As a medium-hairy Russian Jewess, body hair and how to remove it has been a preoccupation of mine since high school.
In his Education Week Commentary, "The Goal of Education Is Becoming," Marc Prensky expresses his frustration regarding the strange preoccupation of schools with the single goal of "learning".
