The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. ... The failure on behalf of these policies to create safer schools calls for reform and the implementation of evidence-based alternatives to school discipline. ... In reviewing the existing body of literature, I will underline the detrimental impact that zero tolerance policies have had on U.S. public schools and outline alternatives to school discipline that are more supportive of educational achievement and conducive to the needs of adolescents during t...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... Violence at school often involves the use of weapons. ... School violence occurs on school property, on the way to or from school, during a school-sponsored event, and on the way to or from a school-sponsored event. ... Instead of allowing students to spend time on the streets or with gangs by getting them suspended, whenever the student is not dangerous, in-school suspensions and community service, make better alternatives ( Ross, 2012 ). ... Sometimes after consulting with parents, the school splits up a gang...

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Children who are spanked are at increase risk for depression, and more likely to have problems in school. ... In that quiet time you will often find an alternative or solution to the problem. ... An alternative is to have your child do something that people do to put themselves back into integrety with the person they broke the agreement with. ... The alternatives are limitless and the results are calmer to parents who feel more supported....

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I feel that Measure 91 should be passed for many reasons, including, that marijuana is an effective medicine and it has the potential to generate millions of state tax dollars that could be used to help fund Oregon schools and infrastructure. ... This kind of money in Oregon could help fund our schools, hire new teachers, fix our roads and bridges, and help support our state. ... It can also aid the community as a medication alternative and in the financial support of local economies through legal taxation. ...

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Parents should also make cautious media choices when viewing a show with children, and also discuss the inappropriateness of the violent solutions and help the child to create nonviolent alternatives. ... Parents and schools should educate children to be media literate and protect them against the media violence. ... Secondly, parents and schools should teach sex education courses. Communicate to the children about all of the effects of becoming sexually active such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and how their friendships and school life will change dramatically. ...

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They can visit castles, take river trips, or explore imaginary lands With selective viewing television can richly contribute to school readiness" (Chen, 122). ... Another solution is to remind children there are alternatives to deal with problems, such as compromising. A final solution could be a special program implemented in schools that teaches children about media violence. ... What these parents and other concerned adults should do is channel that energy into areas, such as commercials and school programming, that will help educate children in understanding that...

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Violence in music Hard Rock Musik causes Violence David Merrell, a high school student from Suffolk, Virginia, has won top honors in regional and state science fairs for his experiment involving mice, a maze, and hard-rock and roll music. ... The following troublesome themes are prominent: Advocating and glamorizing abuse of drugs and alcohol Pictures and explicit lyrics presenting suicide as an alternative" or solution" Graphic violence Rituals in concerts Sex wich focuses on control, sadism, masochism, incest, children devaluing woman, and violence toward women Parents ...

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As with preschoolers, school-age children exposed to domestic violence are more prone to show an increase in sleep disturbances, and less likely to investigate and play freely and to show motivation to control their environment (Katz 157). Other studies have reported that school-age children, age 6-12, who are exposed to family violence, are affected similarly to those exposed to community violence (Houskamp 364). ... The general performance such as attitudes, social skill, and school performance are often affected negatively. ... In addition, school-age children are likely to understand more ...

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These stages are defining the problem, crafting the official response, reacting to the official response and developing alternative strategies. ... (gamemarketwatch.com) These alternative strategies signify the final stage in the evolution of a social problem, thus making violent video games a social problem. ...

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The unclear definition of violence may weaken the research, if there are alternative behaviours being studied. ... A study by Friedrich and Stein (1973) took this form as nursery school children were monitored in their classroom for a four-week period. ... This research adds some support to the Bo-bo doll study, but can be criticised for not having a representative sample as all the participants used were in the same class at the same school, adding difficulties to generalising the results. ...

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Gun Control The basic premise of the constitution is to allow people to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone else cannot take one's right to life. However there are times when people try. When that time comes, the victim must have a way to protect himself. A handgun carried concealed is a great way to offer that protection What gun control advocates can't perceive is that gun control laws are aimed at the legal buying and selling of guns. ...

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For many parents, realizing that their child spends more hours a week watching television than attending school, playing with other children, or in any other activity except sleep is enough to raise concern. ... While never using the television, as an electronic baby sitter may be impractical for some families, an alternative suggestion is to collect videotapes that are appropriate for their children's developmental level and use these as necessary. ...

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Children should not know about murder and rape; however according to Gloria Tristani, Commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission, by the time they finish elementary school, children have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence. ... These younger children are fascinated with a media that does not require the ability to read or decipher in a way they do not know how; therefore, they spend more time watching television than older school age children. ... "...at the end of the usual life span, the average person will have endured more than ten uninterrupted years of te...

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They may not be able to settle into a school and get consistent teaching. ... Lou may have felt that taking her children out of a troubled household was the best alternative, yet we see children are satisfied with the simple pleasures in life. ...

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In cases where children do not respond to alternative forms of punishment because of defiance of authority, a swat may encourage the child to listen and respect the parent. ... An author of the book The War Against the Family, William Gairdner, asks the question "are we going to depend on the authority of parents or are we going to depend more and more on uniformed policemen in our schools" (Woodard 35). ... A pole done by National Family Violence survey shows a 10% decrease of spanking in the United States since 1950 yet the amount of juvenile violence in school is on the rise (Larzelere 38...

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Imagine two small children sitting quietly in front of a new age babysitter, the television. After viewing a prime time show which had many violent scenes, the youngsters decided to actually leave indoors and play outside before dark comes. While playing, they begin to rough house each othe...

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Ralph Baer could not possibly have anticipated the cultural phenomenon video games would become when he created "Odyssey" in 1972, the first home video game console. It was Baer, working for Magnavox, who first released video games to the public, beginning what is a multi-billion dollar industr...

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"Sexual Violence- While the crimes of "rape- and "incest- have been on the statute books for hundreds of years, it was not until the 1970s that "sexual violence- was more fully explored and developed as a concept. Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). Feminism responsible for debunking some of the myths about rape • women "ask for it...

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