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Mentors Guide Boys on Life's Path |
| Section: LIFE / YOUTH |
| Author: Joyce Howard Price |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,108 Words, 6,997 Characters |
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The twenty-six retired professional men who are school mentors for Washington D.C. Experience Corps walk a very elastic line in their relationship with young boys at risk.
The men--all volunteers--are at various times counselors, advisers, coaches, career guides, role models and friends. But under no circumstances does the organization want them to act as substitute fathers, even when the boys come from homes where fathers are not present or seldom appear.
"My daughter is thirty years old, and I could imagine how I would feel if somebody tried to step in as surrogate," says Ron Montague, sixty-one, a retired air traffic controller who is mentoring for the second year at Webb Elementary School in Northeast D.C.
Experience Corps also asks that the mentor and mentored child not be al...
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--"Child Care and At-Risk Children," by Raymond C. Collins, September 1991 (Article #19714)
--"Learning and Youth Alienation," by Edward A. Wynne, February 1988 (Article #13943)
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