UNDERLYING CAUSES OF HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT This paper provides a brief overview of the major underlying causes of high school dropout and its consequences. The subject is directly related to two benchmarks being addressed by many of Georgia’s county collaboratives: “Increase the percentage of students who graduate from school on time” and “Reduce the percentage of students absent 10 days or more from school annually.” The hope is that by understanding the underlying root causes of high school
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they are up to date and what to do if they aren’t, check prescription orders to make sure they are current, and she goes on and on. As the school year starts, I’m learning that school nurses don’t just fix boo boos and give medication. These nurses are responsible for so much more. As we get into the school year, Nurse Cindy begins instructing me on how we need to get ready for the state mandated health screenings. What is passing or failing for vision and hearing? What do I do if a child fails
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EFFECT OF BROKEN HOMES ON THE LEARNING PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (A CASE STUDY IN LAGELU L.G.A OF OYO STATE) ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of broken homes on the learning performance/academic achievement in mathematics of Junior Secondary School students in Lagelu L.G.A. in Oyo state. According to the U.S census Bureau, half of all first marriages end in divorce, while 60% of
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sentiments are too strong – there will be little deviance and little change or progress. * Conversely if there is little collective sentiment, there will be too much crime and deviance and individuality rises and the status quo breaks down. This is what Durkheim referred to an anomie – loss of shared
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“All About Juveniles & Crime” UNIT 1 By: Michelle Lee Class: Juvenile Delinquency What is Juvenile Delinquency? In my opinion, juvenile delinquency is basically young children committing crimes illegally. Also – individuals who are pretty much under the statutory age of majority. Why do you think these children are committing these crimes? I believe these children are committing these crimes because of the following: 1. they may have family problems, example: there is no food to eat in
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bullying at school. Therefore, bullied children live within fear, self blame, feel weak and its affect their personality traits and self confidence so this situation makes them unable to study well and they might hate going to school and tend to the truancy. Furthermore, they will lose their opportunities to participate with others or enjoy school activities. Hence, they will gain less academic performance and low educational attainment.There is a strong association between academic achievement and being
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Assess functionalist theories of crime and deviance. Functionalism is a social structural and social control theory. It believes that it is society that causes the individual to commit crime. Social control theory looks at why people do not commit crime as it says that people are controlled by the primary and secondary agents of social control, such as the family or religion, and so should not commit crime. Functionalism is also a Right Wing theory, which believes that agents of social control like
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perspective seems to dominate public opinion as school shooting incidents continue to occur across the nation and the media reports young children committing violent crimes. After virtually every incident, questions emerge about the juvenile's parents and what role they played (or should have played) in their child's life. Parental responsibility laws, varying greatly within and among the states, have appeared as one answer to these questions. Although these laws would seem to garner great public support
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they are still taken to juvenile detention due to age. Which happens to be a constant issue. Juvenile courts have some similarities and some differences. What makes them similar is that they both would a plea bargains. Offenders have the opportunity to plead their case in order to get a shorter sentence or being reversed. Depending on what crime or by having evidence that they were wrongly accused is determined .A juvenile court is a court law responsible for the trial or legal supervision of
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from the society, media and peers pressure, stress is not necessary caused by these process of growth but by the demand and responsibility that is usually attached to it.These period of development in adolescents have various impact and effects on what kind of stress they face and how it is being dealt with, these stress can either physical, intellectual, emotional or social. Adolescent period is often believed to be a difficult period and very critical stage of transition because of various qualitative
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