Boys and Girls (Part One)
A number of news stories have crossed my path this month about boys and girls. This thread is about issues that happen to kids outside of school. One heads up I wanted to give parents of girls is the movie, Spring Breakers . Now, you don't have to get too worried because it's rated R so I would hope most of your students could not just go to see it. Spring Breakers is about a group of college girls who want a spring break, have no money, rob a restaurant and they're off and running. However, you should be warned for a couple of reasons. One, this is NOT a comedy. It's pretty serious stuff. Trailer . Two, it stars some very familiar (to young tweens and teens) actors like Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Selena Gomez (Disney Channel) and Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars). I read an article in the NY Times and for most of these young actresses, this is a breaking-away-from-type movie for them and their careers....