A b e c e d a r i a n

What Herb Kohl vividly defines in his I Won't Learn From You. The savvy of urban youth to cope with school by culturally rejecting, as in fasting, all forms of subordination and lack of love. A mental resistance to people and places that really don't care about you. Cognate to the "at risk," who are reacting to boredom and adult indifference. A cultural survival mechanism.