How Society Views Violence In Schools In the past few years there has been a definite increase in the incidence of violence in the schools. ... It has become an issue in many areas, including violence in schools. ... There are more before and after school programs offered by the schools than there has ever been. ... So, what can be done to help with violence in the schools? School districts are turning to alternative programs to help reach all students, they are offering alternative discipline actions, and they have increased their program offerings to the parents. ...

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As an alternative to playing and just being kids they were worrying about being "chosen" to go to heaven The more that is written about the Puritans the more obvious it is that there are more differences than similarities in the way children were raised in Puritan New England then in modern day civilization. ... Children today are typically going to school until they decide they no longer want to go or until they finish college. ...

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At her cousins baptism she says, "Everybody laughing except me, because I"m wearing a dress, pink and white with stripes, and new underclothes and socks and the old saddle shoes I wear to school, brown and white, the kind I get every September because they last long and they do" (47). ... When Esperanza wants to eat lunch at school she tells her mother: You would see me less and less and like me better. ... It is obvious by her comment about how much school costs that her parents have suggested she needs a job to help pay for it. ... Esperanza's ugly environment is not one that anyone...

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The statement my dad made had given them an alternative had an realized that seventeen was the age of rebellion, and I watched how my dad's good intentions had an doing the right thing, which was to be in the house by 9pm, they now considered not coming home at all. ... For instance, my older brother would often tell us what was happening at school, what girls they liked, what new friends they made, which of their friends were good guys and which of their friends were bad guys. ...

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These children also tend to show problems in school and with developing friendships. ... This in turn can affect the conduct of a child while in school. ... However, most of the research on boys" adjustment fails to consider the quality or quantity of father-child contact or the availability of alternative difficult to assess the impact of changing family structure on boys" behavior (Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol.50). ...

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