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- 681: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... A.D.D., or rather its diagnosis, has become one of the most rapidly growing disorders among children and adults, not only in the United States but throughout the world. Three to six percent of school age children and half that number of adults in the United States have already been diagnosed with A.D.D. Although the majority have yet to be diagnosed, it is estimated that approximately 15 million ... it is called "DSM-IV". Using this guide, doctors look for six or more of the following symptoms in their patient: a) often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in school work, work or other activities. b) often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities. c) often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly. d) often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish school work, chores, or duties in the workplace. (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions) e) often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities. f) often avoids, dislikes or is reluctant to engage ...
- 682: Teens: Obstacles in the 90's
- ... teen drug abuse. They are also faced with the peer pressures faced by theses drugs plus the pressure to be like everyone else. Teen alcoholism is effecting teens in many ways from doing good in school to trouble with money and the law. One way that alcoholism is effecting teens is how they do in school. I believe more teens are getting bad grades because of the way alcohol effects there attendance habits and study habits. Alcohol also effects the way they remember facts such as remembering things for a test ... kid is drinking and driving or just have alcohol on them they can lose there licenses for a 6 months or more. They can also be put in juvenile hall or be kicked out of school. An alcoholics lifestyle also leads into other things such as drugs and sex. Once a teen gets into this party lifestyle it can lead them into stronger stimulants such as pot and stronger drugs. ...
- 683: Billy Graham
- ... article about his life before becoming a preacher. "I lived on a farm. The only difference was I had to get up early in the morning and go milk cows. When I came back from school that day, I had to milk those same cows. There were about twenty cows I had to milk. By hand. That was before they had those machines. I loved being a farmer. But God called ... views by his parents, he was still influenced spiritually from his upbringing. At age seventeen, Graham was in the position just like many other seventeen years old's he knew. Graham was popular in high school with the girls, played sports such as basketball and baseball, but was lost on what his future would have in store for him. During this time an evangelist named Mordecai Ham came to Charlotte, to ... they graduate, Graham blindly enrolled at Bob Jones College in Cleveland, Tennessee for the simple reason that Jones' preaching had once impressed his mother. If Graham did not know who he was prior to entering school, he soon learned that he was not meant to be a Bob Jones student. He found the discipline to be absolutely restrictive and the theology to be at odds with the notions of God ...
- 684: Federalism
- ... the federal government’s power. In the Supreme Court case the United States v. Lopez, the question at hand was whether or not the federal government had the authority to make carrying a firearm on school property a federal offense. Chief Justice Rehnquist declared that this offense was in no way a federal one. Since the student was a local student at a local level, the federal government could not impose any interstate regulations. In another recent case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a local government restricting a federal right. In the case Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser(1986), a high school student used profane language and sexual comments to describe another student at an assembly, the student was reprimanded by the school for the comments he made. The student claimed that by reprimanding him, the ...
- 685: The Presidential Election of 2000
- ... is to come. Over the years he has championed the idea of choice in public education, has lobbied for tax credits on money used for tuition and the expansion of charter schools in Minnesota, a school choice program for low-income families in Washington, D.C., and an amendment to the New Hampshire state Constitution to block court imposed tax increases. He supported California's Proposition 227 that gave parents the ... fund to reward states for improving student performance, supports establishing a reward fund that will reward schools that show the greatest improvements in student achievement, supports empowering parents with information by requiring states to publish school-by-school report cards with annual test results. Governor Bush's plan supports increasing choices for parents in the education of their children by allowing federal funds to be used for public and private school choice ...
- 686: Censorship
- ... a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school's selections. And in public libraries, parents were once again the single greatest source of challenges to materials. The world is filled with "obscene" things. And it would seem that those parents are just trying to protect their children from the outside world. But does it really help? These day, an average elementary school student knows many things. They are influenced by a wide range of sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and school, their personality and their background. Why they read ...
- 687: Does Violence In Movies Contribute To Violent Teens
- ... And Ron are new to the force but have already encountered two teenage murders. Recently, they had a kid that grew up in Flat Rock, one day over the summer he went into Woodhaven High School and shot and killed a kid, the teenager told the police that he was inspired by the lyrics in one of Marilyn Manson’s song and also from a gang related movie that he had ... professor and now a well know expert on how soldiers are taught to kill. According to him those same ways are being taught to our youth, but I don’t see the kids in middle school, and high school walking around in formation, wearing the same uniform, and carrying semi-automatic machine guns, sure they can find someone who has nothing better to do than buy one for them, but without that person ...
- 688: TLO vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid?
- ... I rule in favor of the petitioner, the state of New Jersey. In this case, I found no reason in the claims made by TLO and her defense. They claimed that the search conducted by school officials was unconstitutional. These officials were searching her purse for cigarettes, which she was caught smoking in the bathroom. During the search for the cigarettes they found the cigarettes, rolling papers used for making joints ... because she was violated of her rights promised in amendment 4, unlawful search and seizure. Yet, the incriminating items were found at the same time as the cigarettes, and given reasonable cause for suspicion, the school does have the legal right to search its students, and finally, the school officials had the right to search her purse because there was a reasonable doubt of her claiming to innocence being true. TLO's 4th amendment rights were however, in fact not violated due to ...
- 689: Donald Trump
- ... middle class homes in Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn for GI’s returning from World War II. The Trump family was very wealthy but despite their money, Fred Trump demanded his children’s success in school. Donald’s parents were always teaching them the value of money. Even though they did not have to, all of the children worked. The girls worked in banks and the boys worked with their father ... various construction sites. Donald was not the best student and was a handful for teachers. At the age of thirteen, Donald was not meeting his parent’s expectations so he was sent away to military school. He did Latini 2 well at the military academy, both socially and academically. Trump had become a star baseball player while in school and had also become a student leader for his graduating class. In 1964 Donald graduated from military school and was offered a chance to try out for a major league farm team. Remembering his ...
- 690: Multicultural Education
- ... that one could not have a true understanding of a subject by only possessing knowledge of one side of it, this brings up the fact that there would never be enough time in our current school year to equally cover the contributions of each individual nationality. This leaves teachers with two options. The first would be to lengthen the school year, which is highly unlikely because of the political aspects of the situation. The other choice is to modify the curriculum to only include what the instructor (or school) feels are the most important contributions, which again leaves them open to criticism from groups that feel they are not being equally treated. A national standard is out of the question because of the ...
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