... kids wear uniforms in order to reform schools is the equivalent of painting the walls of a crumbling building -- merely cosmetic (Chaika 18). In 1995 President Bill Clinton visited Long Beach California and subsequently requested that all schools consider mandatory uniforms. Soon after, the president instructed the department of Education to distribute a Manual on School Uniforms to all school districts throughout ... they fail to address the real issues at the heart of the matter? The study most often cited by proponents of the school uniform debate is that of the Long Beach County Scho...

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... characters to achieve a sense of accomplishment when it came to escaping from reality. Along with blitz ball, another crazy idea struck Finny; he wanted to go to the beach. He had broken the school's swimming record but strangely wanted Gene to keep quiet. This action showed Finny to be humble about his success, but shocked Gene so Finny ... silence as we walked toward the dormitory. 'The only real swimming is in the ocean,'" (Knowles 45). After that remark Finny proposed, "'Let's go to the beach,'" (Knowles 45). This trip showed how the theme escaping reality progressed throughout the ...

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... uniforms will put the students" emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing Hooper 2 "cool", and they will help to lower school violence. Almost six years ago, the Long Beach School District made headlines when it became the first school district in the country to make uniforms mandatory for its elementary and middle school students. According to school officials in ... Long Beach, California, attendance and test scores improved, incidents of students fighting decreased by 50%, student crimes decreased by 36% and student suspensions decreased by 32% after they enacted a ... , Florida, Ge...

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... lawmakers must address and act on accordingly. The statistics say that schools having a school uniform policy have seen a decrease in crime. Long Beach Unified School District was the first large urban school district in the United States to require school uniforms. They have seen substantial decreases in ... health. The current Texas law does provide ways of providing uniforms for students who can not afford to buy them. (Appendix A). The Long Beach Unified School District has privately funded over $160,000 for assistance to disadvantaged students. By doing this they have not put any fi...

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... feel uniforms will put the students" emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing "cool", and they will help to lower school violence. Almost five years ago, the Long Beach School District made headlines when it became the first school district in the country to make uniforms mandatory for its elementary and middle school students. According to Phoenix school ... officials in Long Beach, California, attendance and test scores improved, incidents of students fighting decreased by 50%, student crimes decreased by 36% and student suspensions decreased by 32% after they enacted a ... , Flori...

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... uniforms help the school meet five goals: foster greater school pride, enhance self-esteem, improve school attendance, reduce suspensions and improve school climate (Washington 1). The number of suspensions in Long Beach, California, which now requires uniforms for students, dropped 32 percent. Every category of infraction - from assaults to drug use to sex offenses- has fallen. Teachers and administrators in the Long ... Beach also believe most students perform better academically because of the uniforms, making school more of an academic atmosphere (Pertman 2). Officials in Long Beach...

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... feel uniforms will put the students" emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing "cool", and they will help to lower school violence. Almost five years ago, the Long Beach School District made headlines when it became the first school district in the country to make uniforms mandatory for its elementary and middle school students. According to Phoenix school ... officials in Long Beach, California, attendance and test scores improved, incidents of students fighting decreased by 50%, student crimes decreased by 36% and student suspensions decreased by 32% after they enacted a ... , Florid...

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... is why so many parents want the schools to go to a mandatory uniform policy. Many parents believe that if children wear uniforms, the violence in schools would drop significantly. Long Beach Unified School District was the first large school district in the United States to implement a mandatory uniform policy. "In 1994, the Long ... Beach Unified School District in California became the nation's first, large urban district to require all it's elementary and middle school students to wear uniforms. School crime has plunged 76 percent ... , but they also have to supply their children wi...

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... own experience, of knowing how harsh life can be without an education. The words had always slipped through my mind though, and after high school, I had moved down to Virginia Beach where I had worked as a telemarketer for almost a year. In November of 2001, my mother, who still remained in New Jersey, had decided to take me to India. I had spent almost ... own experience, of knowing how harsh life can be without an education. The words had always slipped through my mind though, and after high school, I had moved down to Virginia Beach where I had worked as a telemarketer for almost a y...

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... with her grandparents to the house where her grandpa was raised in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her early childhood was spent working for her grandparents in the restaurant and on the beach. Her grandfather instilled in her a love of the written word, and she spent a great deal of her time reading to satisfy her imagination. Her family tried to infuse in her ... talked to them. Shakur's grandparents opened up a business on their beachfront property. Her early childhood was spent working for her grandparents in the restaurant and on the beach. As a kid she would go to the beach and while ...

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... it comes to the implementation of uniforms. A middle school in Norfolk Virginia, reported a thirty-eight percent reduction in fighting after just six months of enacting a uniform policy. Also in a Long Beach California school district, they reported a seventy-six percent decrease in school crime, just three years after enacting their Uniforms in the uniform policy (Journal of Law & Education). If more schools ... be part of a larger picture. Many officials chose uniform policy because it is a simple and efficient way to start making changes. According to Jean Hartman a spokesman of the L...

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... arguments for uniforms is the main topic, which is whether they reduce school violence or not. In some startling statistics, it was shown that a year after uniform implementation in Long Beach schools, school crime decreased by 36 percent, fights by 51%, sex offenses by 74%, weapon offenses by 50%, assault and battery by 34%, and vandalism by 18% (Noll). Dick Van ... Der Laan of the Long Beach Unified School District, when asked his opinion on the statistics, stated: "We can't attribute the improvement exclusively to school uniforms, but we think it's more than coincidental. There's les...

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... body the same. Students feel that they have to have expensive clothes instead of cheap ones. One of the first public school districts to introduce a mandatory uniform policy was Long Beach, California. The policy came into effect in the 1994 dress code policy. Just a year after the schools adopted the uniform policy, fights and theft went down 80 percent and sexual ... the school (Manual 1). This manual is based on data gathered from schools in Washington that do have uniforms. President Bill Clinton became a part of the mandatory uniform policy when Long Beach released their data on th...

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... . So the few strategies that have helped is smoke but I don't do it excessively, and when I was 100% healthy I would walk through the beach and sit on one of the lodges and throw rocks at the water. The beach is a very relaxing and meditating place for me since I have a deep and intense connection with it. Besides that, music sometimes helps not every ... ...

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... for who he was. Then once he was about to graduate UC San Diego, he went on a cruise to Mexico with his girlfriend. They both arrive to a beach which was an extremely dangerous beach and was not warned about the dangerous waves. And from that day, my friend, Bovey never came back. They searched and searched, but the body was never recovered ... ...

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... , uniforms will put the students emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing coolly, and they will help to lower school violence. The idea comes from a Californian elementary school in Long Beach. In 1994, Long Beach became the country's first public school district to institute a mandatory uniform policy"(Atkins 42). The results were so promising that they lead to the President's endorsement. The school ... ...

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... friends because he has to rush to work. On sunny days after school when you are at work, your friends are free to go to the beach. Employed students are unable to go to the beach because they have to work. An after-school job interferes with your social life. After school jobs are damaging to many students. Even though a student may ... ...

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... general is fun. You not only just stay in around the Richmond area and compete but we also go out of state such as going to Baltimore, Maryland and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Everyone has to have practice but no one wants to have practice. If it were up to us to have practice or not, I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be ... ...

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... 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 harsh penalties. In Palm Beach, Florida school police charged a student with "throwing a deadly missile," - the deadly missile referred to in this case was an egg that the student had thrown on Halloween. What ... ...

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... outside of Newark. When some students raised their hand, he asked where and to compare the weather in the other location to Newark's weather. Some students remember going to the beach and even the countries their parents are from and were able to properly answer the question. By asking this question, Mr. Gonzalez is getting the student to think about what ... ...

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... take them on a field trip over the weekend and she got approved to go but her co-workers were not too happy about that. She took the kids to Newport Beach to a holocaust museum to show them the struggles that they went through which is worse than what they are going through. They were all so shocked to see that so ... ...

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... be completely dissolved. A School Shooting Plot Foiled Unlike previous resources, "A School Shooting Plot Foiled" tells the story of how sixteen year old Nicholas Elliott massacred a small Christian school in Virginia Beach, Virginia. While other articles have detailed the prevention process of the subject, this one documents how the intervention phase can be utilized. According to Swezey and Thorp (2010), this shooting ... ...

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... school. Before the installation of the metal detectors they hardly ever caught anyone with guns. Generally, schools need to bring in more security than ever needed before. Twice in Long Beach, California teens from outside the school threw bottles and rocks at the schoolyard. Twice, students were fired on and a bullet hurt a boy playing basketball. As a result of these incidents the ... ...

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... gifted teachers are needed all over the country. One of the earliest programs for gifted and talented students was set up in 1974, at The Old Donation Center, in Virginia Beach. Students scoring within the top 3% of students on an assessment test are referred here to be further challenged. These students are considered gifted and have special teachers and classes to ... ...

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... face as "above average" members of their school. One of the earliest programs for gifted and talented students was set up in 1974, at The Old Donation Center, in Virginia Beach. Students scoring within the top 3% of students on an assessment test are referred here to be further challenged. These students are considered gifted and have special teachers and classes to ... ...

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