Being ‘at risk’ can be positive

Bryan Marshall Register News Writer To Boyce Watkins, the term “at risk” means more than its negative connotation. The Syracuse University professor, who spoke Wednesday at Eastern Kentucky University during the seventh annual Alternative Strategies for Educating Students At Risk conference, listed Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Gates and Albert Einstein as notable figures who were at risk. “Sen. Barrack Obama was at risk,” he said. “In his book, he talked all day about using drugs as a teenager and all the things that he got into that led him on a lot of paths that didn’t seem to aim toward him eventually becoming the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. “But, it was that same at-risk behavior, that same strength that led him to have the ability to compete with Hillary Clinton and eventually run one of the... [read full story]