TEEN TUTORS GIVE THEIR TIME TO HELP OTHERS.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
It all begins on a Van Nuys elementary school elementary school: see school. playground two afternoons a week. The educational future we want for all our school kids. Thara Samatra, 15, leans in real close and whispers Whispers is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1980. Plot summary Hilary Thomas is attacked by Bruno Frye. Hilary went to visit him on some business trip. When she gets home one day Bruno comes out of the closet and tries to rape her. in 8-year-old Alajandra Pina's ear, causing the Cohasset Elementary School third grader to break out in a big grin. ``You understand now?'' the Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. 10th-grader asked. ``Yes, I understand,'' said the third-grader, putting pencil to paper. ``Good,'' Thara said. On to the next problem, the next question. The next light bulb bulb, thickened, fleshy plant bud, usually formed under the surface of the soil, which carries the plant over from one blooming season to another. It may have many fleshy layers (as in the onion and hyacinth) or thin dry scales (as in some lilies)—both of which about to go off in a beautiful, young mind. ``Look at them,'' Sharon Roth said. ``That's exactly what we were hoping for when we started this program last month.'' A high school student takes an elementary school kid under her wing and becomes her tutor TUTOR - A Scripting language on PLATO systems from CDC. ["The TUTOR Language", Bruce Sherwood, Control Data, 1977]. and mentor, all rolled into one Adj. 1. rolled into one - made up of several components combined into a single entity combined - made or joined or united into one . Becomes the teen-age role model any parents would love for their young child to have while they are off at work making the money that pays the bills. It all makes so much sense, seems so perfect. It's hard to imagine that only a month ago Roth, director of the state-funded Vans Nuys Healthy Start Collaborative, was biting biting pertaining to the characteristic behavior of performing a bite. biting louse see species of the insect suborder mallophaga. biting midge insects of the family ceratopogonidae. her nails and worrying. She was about to find out the answer to a question that had been dogging her for months while she was setting up this triangular mentoring program in the Valley, modeled after one run by Catholic Big Brothers in Bellflower bellflower, in botany bellflower or bluebell, name commonly used as a comprehensive term for members of the Campanulaceae, a family of chiefly herbaceous annuals or perennials of wide distribution, characteristically found on dry . If you asked, would they come? Would enough Van Nuys High School students give up a couple of hours of their precious, after-school time every week to help younger students down the street make it through some rough, rocky times? Roth feared no teen-agers would come. ``I was hoping for five to show up at Cohasset that first day,'' Roth said. ``When 25 walked through the door, I knew it was going to work. ``And now, there are more coming in every week. It's wonderful.'' Yes, it is. Wonderful. All the way around. ``I was lucky when I was in third grade,'' Thara said, looking over at her friend, Margalit Kochav, 16, helping another Cohasset third-grader with her lessons. ``My parents had the time to help me with my school work, but a lot of these kids don't have that opportunity,'' she said. ``Margalit and I know that. That's why we got involved. ``We want to help these kids with whatever problems they have now, so they won't have them when they reach middle and high school.'' Smart girls. That's probably why they've set their own goals high. They want to be pediatricians. Cherie Spamer, principal of Cohasset, said the mentoring program has been a big hit with her students and their parents. ``We have 827 students here, and I'd say about 400 of them could use some kind of mentoring,'' she said. ``So many of our parents are working two jobs trying to do what's best for their kids, but they're missing the interaction with their children. The kids from Van Nuys High help fill that gap and give our kids wonderful teen-age role models to look up to. ``Every day, I'm having more and more parents asking me about the program, wanting to get their children involved,'' Spamer said. ``Even the kids themselves are coming up to me wanting to join.'' As the last leg of the triangle, adults serve as mentors for the high school kids, Roth said. She is hoping to recruit more adults, and she can be reached at the Van Nuys Healthy Start Collaborative, (818) 786-1438. The pencils are put away and the paper is back in the notebook folders. The lessons are over for the day. It's snack time. On the playground tables, Roth sets out some snacks donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. by local food stores. She goes hat in hand to stores because money is always tight in a program like this. The high school kids sit down with the elementary kids at the tables. Over some doughnuts and orange juice, the teen-agers tell the younger ones what life's like up the block in the big time - at Van Nuys High. Sharon Roth watches them with a smile that seems wider than her face. Come 4:30 p.m., the kids say their goodbyes and promise to meet again Thursday afternoon. Roth is still smiling as she begins to wipe (1) To completely erase data from memory or the hard disk. See file wipe. (2) A digital video effect that places one image over another. Although there are a myriad varieties, the classic wipe is a scene transition where the next scene slides horizontally or the tables clean. All that nail biting Nail biting is the habit of biting one's fingernails or toenails during periods of nervousness, stress, hunger, or boredom [1]. It can also be a sign of mental or emotional disorder. and worrying was for nothing. She asked, and they came. CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO Thara Samatra, 15, right, helps Alajandra Pina, 8, with her homework. Thara is among role models and mentors from Van Nuys High in a new program at Cohasset Elementary School. John Lazar/Daily News |
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