| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 2747 |
| AUTHOR: | George F Will |
| QUOTATION: | In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ib 5 Jan 87 |
| SUBJECTS: | The World: Education: Observers & Critics |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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