Reporter’s notebook: kids, cancer, schools, take 4
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- April
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I had the opportunity to interview four North Rockland sophomores who volunteered to talk about how cancer had touched their lives.
I asked the students whether being exposed to cancer made them more aware of cancer or affected how they talked about it with their friends. Here is what Raven Hopkins, 15, said:
“Knowing so many people (affected by cancer), it makes me want to inform them what’s involved, show them what it can do to you, show them how the cancer rate is exploding. It makes me want to shake them, (say) ‘You to take care of yourself to make sure you are not the one’ because it’s hard being sick. I don’t think people realize how much they are affecting their family when they are gone. It makes them—it looks like people are selfish, they don’t care. They don’t.”
Here’s how Spencer Kennard, 16 answered the same question:
“I talk about it with friends and family. I think that cancer is so rampant in society, I think that people have all—either they have seen something like ER —like it’s become numb and unless it happens to you, people blank it off.”
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