The vision is one of Soviet teenagers and American high-school youngsters joining hands in a symbolic sharing of music.
To the Editor: Regarding "Missing School for a Vacation" (Practical Traveler, Feb. 8) by Wendy Knight: My wife and I once pulled our three grade-school youngsters out of school for a two-week winter trip to Europe.
In contrast to the academic programs at some other Manhattan public schools, youngsters study Japanese and Latin in middle school and may switch to French or Spanish in high school.
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The huge interest was perhaps not surprising after the fragmentation of the Connexions careers advice network in 2012, when government funding was cut and the responsibility for careers advice for school-age youngsters returned to schools without any additional resources.
Her father is an English teacher at the Daytop School, a high school for youngsters with substance abuse problems, in Mendham, N.J.
Critics of the tough-love approach cite studies showing that students active in extracurricular activities tend to perform better in class, and they worry that without structured activities after school, troubled youngsters will be more apt to find trouble.
