... majority of cases involving zero tolerance punishments involved disruptive behavior or students talking back to their teachers (Insley, 2001). In a review of zero tolerance related suspensions, Force (2008) describes a number of cases involving the poor application of zero tolerance policies on behalf of school staff and police. In 1998 a case in Colorado involving a ten-year-old student named Shanon Borchardt ... of these mitigating factors in Shanon's case. More students like Shanon have fallen victim to the misuse of zero tolerance policies and the disproportionate enforcement of hars...

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... how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, which are becoming more common, every year, in students from age 15 to 19. The number of congenital syphilis cases alone has increased from 68 in 1999 to 127 in 2008 (Collins). The only reason this increase is occurring is ... sex education course at all. As a community, we must begin to educate students on the risk of sexually transmitted diseases; otherwise the number of 15 to 19 year old students that have sexually transmitted diseases in our area will continue to rise. With Texas currently ranking third ... that public sc...

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... go wrong. Things they would regret for the rest of their life. They could get suspended, expelled, imprisoned or they could end up dead. Drugs and Alcohol is probably the number one temptation that college students especially new students. There are a lot of drugs and alcohol that students would come across in college like Hallucinogens, Opium, LSD, Cocaine, Weed, Ecstasy, Heroine ... ...

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