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Angels of compassion or agents of death?

Is there such a thing as the right to die?

Family trauma

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Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey R. Woolf •

Bar Ilan University, Israel

Exhorbitant medical costs

Regulation of - or intrusion into - private lives?

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Life with dignity - death with dignity

JOHN O'CONNOR

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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Classroom teachers believe to-
day's kids care less about spend-
ing time with their families
religion and school performance '
than the teachers did when they
were in school, according to a re-
cent national survey.
But those baby-boom teachers
also think their charges are more
independent, more racially toler-
ant, more politically aware and
more socially responsible.
The survey, of 702 classroom
teachers in grades kindergarten
through 12 nationwide, was the
second annual sampling of edu-
cators by Springfield, Ill.-based
Horace Mann Educators Corp.
Aged 32 to 50, the age of the
postwar baby boom generation,
respondents believe their stu-
dents have less respect for au-
thority, are less optimistic about
their futures and show more al-
legiance to materialism and anger
than to idealism and patience.
That's opposite, the teachers be-
lieve, than the way they felt when
they were in school, from 1951 to
1982.
"It's much different. I basical-
ly come in and prostitute myself
because I have to take the kids
from where they are, as opposed
to where I want them to be," said
high school science teacher Pat
Schmalenberger, 50.
"The kinds of things we took
for granted in the '50s and '60s,
that society taught us - respect
for education in general, respect
for authority - aren't there."
The survey, which was con-
ducted by Hughes Research Corp.
in Rockville, Md. and has a mar-
gin of error of 4 percent, shows 80
percent of the teachers believe
"having a social life" is most im-
portant to kids today, followed by
preparing for a career (54 per-
cent), performing well in school
(37 percent), and spending time
with family members (31 per-
cent).
Least important to today's kids,
according to the teachers, are be-
ing involved in causes outside
school (22 percent) and having a
strung religious faith (17 percent).
When boomers were in school,
83 percent said performing well
in school was tops, followed by
with
). family (66
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speern:16i4npgetrcim
percent) and preparing for a ca-
reer
important to the
boomers were being active in out-
side causes (13 percent), having
religious l (6 percent)
ia th li p (4 per-
esir
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