Scholastic Update articles from September 1995

Scholastic Update archives from September 1995

The war on Washington. (antigovernment sentiment) (includes related information about issues, politicians and a poll)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1995... From the mountains of Montana, where antigovernment militants are training for armed combat against the federal "enemy," to the small towns of rural Pennsylvania, where middle-class Americans are fed up with high taxes, an antigovernment mood is...

Should the federal government be drastically cut?
September 1, 1995... [check] YES "It's time for America to choose: Are we going to stay on this 30-year spending spree and squander the future of our country, or are we going to change policy and save the American dream?" --Senator Phil Gramm, (R-Texas) The...

Going off the grid. (Almost Heaven, Idaho)
September 1, 1995... We're moving to Idaho." Jerry Gillespie delivered the news to his five children--the oldest age 18, the youngest 10. Last December, the family packed up and moved from Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, to a log house in the hills above...

Government in your life. (how legislation affects teenagers)
September 1, 1995... For 18-year-old Amanda Manning, Cony High School in Augusta, Maine, is both an academic and a physical challenge. Each morning, as her classmates stream into the two-story brick building, Amanda maneuvers her wheelchair up a steep ramp, praying...

Building a bureaucracy. (events that led to more government power)
September 1, 1995... We've had a federal government for only a little more than 200 years. How did the small, limited government set up by the Constitution in 1789 evolve into the huge federal bureaucracy of today? Here are snapshots of three key moments in American...

It's the law: no gum allowed. (laws of Singapore)
September 1, 1995... For 10 days in the fall of 1993, a group of youths had been spray-painting, throwing eggs, and switching license plates on cars. To Americans, it might have seemed like typical teenage mischief. But this was Singapore. A tiny nation in...

Spilling across borders. (Rwandan refugees)
September 1, 1995... A year and a half ago, a bloody civil war broke out in the tiny African nation of Rwanda. Fighting between Rwanda's two main tribal groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi, killed between 500,000 and I million people in less than three months. Photographs...

Anger on the airwaves. (radio talk-show hosts)
September 1, 1995... Just how powerful are words? Last April, in the wake of the bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City, President Clinton renewed a debate that has been perplexing Americans since the founding of the republic: At what point is our...

Beating the odds. (teenager wins seat on city school board)
September 1, 1995... Today, more Americans than ever seem to be angry and disillusioned with government. Kelly Haney was one of them. But unlike most, the 18-year-old UPDATE reader did something about it. Last spring, while still a senior at Dimond High School in...

A tale of two lives.(juvenile criminals)(Cover Story)
September 15, 1995... In many ways, Frank, 16, and Carlos, 17, are very much alike. The two Connecticut teenagers both come from poor families and rough, urban neighborhoods. Both grew up surrounded by drugs and violence. As teens, they turned to selling drugs to make...

The carrot or the stick.(opinions on punishment of juvenile delinquents)
September 15, 1995... / YES The primary duty of the criminal-justice system is to protect the public. This means cracking down on violent juvenile offenders so they don't commit crimes again. Even teenagers must be locked up so they no longer threaten the public....

Crimebusting: what works?(methods of punishing juvenile crime)
September 15, 1995... Round up every teen on the street after sundown? Send shoplifters to courts where the judge, lawyers, and jury are all teenagers? Punish parents if their kids gets caught with a beer? Cities and towns across the country have come up with some...

Freedom's wages.(conditions for slaves after freedom)
September 15, 1995... Ain't Got Us Back Yet The freedom man come to our place and read a paper what the President had writ what said we was now free, and he talk to us about freedom and told us not to work no more, less we got paid for it. When he had finished...