Daytime – February 22, 2007

This week: Our first “imported” term of teen slang…

DAYTIME, n. What Chicago kids call a party during the day. 

Synonym : ditch party

We start our show in Chicago, where this week's word comes from, 

and hear about what goes down when kids are supposed to be at school 

in Chi-Town!

Next, our local youth paint very vivid pictures of the days when they’ve 

ditched school…

Going across the globe, a Comparative Education professor in Hong Kong

explains why kids where's he's at don't skip class...

And, a veteran truant officer shares the counseling he’s offered parents with 

truant kids…

Listen!

Crib – February 8, 2007

This week’s word – “crib” – slang for the place you call home, your shelter.  This hour you’re going to be touring the broadest range of cribs we could think of…

For example, one of our gang-involved correspondents goes on the road with a local realtor to hear about the challenges of buying a house (in the rival gangs’ neighborhood!)…

And then, our hosts get in the studio wtih a young man just back from prison and ask what it was like to call prison home…

And next we got all the way to New Orleans to hear what it’s like when your crib turns into a trap.

All that in this hour dedicated to defining the word “crib”.

Listen!