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November 2, 2012 This Week at The Rock A weekly update from Shattuck Middle School Important Updates and Information Dates to Remember • November 6-8: WKCE Testing • November 21: Noon Dismissal • November 22-23: Thanksgiving recess • November 27: Shattuck Orchestra Concert, 7 PM • November 29: Shattuck Band Concert, 7 PM • December 4: Shattuck Choir Concert, 7:30 PM • December 6: Shattuck Parent Forum, Topic: Bullying 6:00 PM Shattuck Library • December 12: Noon Dismissal • December

If you have children that are school age you have probably have thought about the options of home schooling vs. public schooling. You most likely have thought about how much would it cost or the amount of time it takes to teach home schooling. With the news articles out there about things that happen at schools you most likely have thought about how that would be on your child as well. One of the last things that most parents think about when choosing to home school or not is how your child’s social

During this day and age, numerous individuals are going back to the school to further their education; due to many families having challenging times in making their ends meet. The employers are seeking individuals who possess college degrees; which inspires people to further their education. Having a college degree often

CONTRIBUTION Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth Prevalence and Association With Psychosocial Adjustment Tonja R. Nansel, PhD Mary Overpeck, DrPH Ramani S. Pilla, PhD W. June Ruan, MA Bruce Simons-Morton, EdD, MPH Peter Scheidt, MD, MPH ULLYING AMONG SCHOOL-AGED youth is increasingly being recognized as an important problem affecting well-being and social functioning. While a certain amount of conflict and harassment is typical of youth peer relations, bullying presents a potentially more serious threat

the better. The key terms for this topic are: Government School: one administered by the Department of Education in each State/Territory Non-government School: (private school) any school not administered by the Department of Eduaction, but including special schools administered by government authorities other than the State/Territory Education Department School:

and learn in school and do well on tests and quizzes. Grades are what set all students apart from each other. I believe grades are a tremendous motivational tool and can be used to "trick" students into learning. They sometimes can cause fear, and they can be "received" not earned due to unfair circumstances. Grades can be good, bad, and ugly. Grades can be a great motivator. Most of the time grades inspire me to do my best. Without grades I would have no reason to try in school. Grades trick

with the notion that school was my playground. A failing grade use to mean that I was having fun in a prison with bleak white walls. When I was written up and sent to the principal’s office I knew that I would get to go home. But the cheerfulness that I felt, up until the point that my parents arrived, quickly vanished when I saw the tears in my mother’s eyes each time. This scenario lasted for the better part of my elementary school days and followed me to my new school when I moved. My mother’s

deal with freedom of speech and expression of middle and high school aged young people. These articles shed light on what types of First Amendment issues the youth today are dealing with. In one article

makes this student different from another student who, at sixteen, drops out of school and gets a job, or a student who decides to wear a shirt that says "PRO-CHOICE" on it? While these students differ in many aspects such as education level, their opinion can equally be silenced under the first amendment. One of the most blatant abuses of the first amendment right to free speech is

should not feel required to participate in religious traditions to which they do not accede. Some will argue that as long as school prayer is optional, it does not violate anyone’s rights. However, Michael J. Davis, Centennial Teaching Professor of Law at The University of Kansas School of Law, presents an account of the Court’s decision in Lee v. Weisman, against a school district allowing religious volunteers to offer non-denominational prayers, in which the Court declared the unconstitutionality