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It may be
time to flip
school
schedules

ONLINE DATING

Is it a

MATCH,
HOOKUP?
or a

Study to look at a later

start for older students
MICHAEL SYMONS @MICHAELSYMONS_
TRENTON Should high school students start their
school day later each morning? What if that meant
starting elementary schools an hour earlier?
Those questions and others might have to be analyzed by the state Department of Education if a bill
unanimously endorsed Thursday by the Senate Education Committee eventually becomes law.
The proposal directs the state to study the issues,
benefits and options for a later start time for high
schools and middle schools, as recommended by the
American Academy of Pediatrics, which says that
teens need nine hours of sleep a night and that high
school classes should start at 8:30 a.m. or later.
They know that the average teenager is chronically
sleep-deprived and suffering from the same symptoms
as adults with sleep disorders, said Sen. Richard Codey, D-Essex, the bills sponsor. Sleep-deprived teenagers tend to be susceptible to tardiness, absenteeism,
moodiness, lack of concentration and the ability to
learn.
Codey said the average start time for high schools in
his district, which includes 14 towns in Essex and

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38 percent of us who are single and

actively looking turn to dating sites
TANYA BREEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

SUSANNE CERVENKA @SCERVENKA

Former New York Giants running back Keith Elias addresses

students during the Heroes & Cool Kids workshop Friday in
Holmdel.

ions are bountiful in the realm of online dating.

The photo of the first potential suitor posed with the King of
the Jungle evokes the image of an adventurous traveler, clearly on some sort of safari. Swipe right on your cellphone or tablet for yes.
After three dozen or so similar pictures, one gets the impression
there must be some big-cat-petting zoo nearby. Or simply too many single men with too much time on their hands and mad Photoshop skills.
Swipe left for no.
Same too for the Ferraris. Because seriously? How many eligible
20-, 30-something men actually own Italian sports cars? Swipe left.
While the kookiness of the photos some people put on their online

Former football
pro: Students can
become mentors
JERRY CARINO CARINOS CORNER

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SINCE 1879

HOLMDEL How do you untangle

lifes biggest knots?
On a November morning at the Vonage headquarters along Main Street,
seven high school girls are trying to
figure that out. In a team-building exercise known as The Knot, the girls join
hands in a circle and are twisted into a
messy mass of entwined bodies.
Then they have to re-form the circle without letting go of each others hands.
Its not going so well.
You have to work together, says the nearest
adult, former New York Giants defensive end Eric
Dorsey.
Welcome to Heroes & Cool Kids, a mentoring
program run by former New York Jets running back
Bruce
Harper.

The premise: Ex-professional athletes

mentor high school students, who in turn mentor
fifth- and sixth-graders.
There are 400 teenagers representing nine high
schools from Monmouth, Middlesex and Ocean counties at this session in the Vonage building. The Knot
is stumping most of them.
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