Sentences with phrase «despite school violence»
Despite school violence, our schools, experts point out, are decidedly safer than our streets.
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Despite the American and democratic character of Protestant churches and the theological schools that serve them, an interpreter who tried to understand them primarily in this context would need to do violence to them, to twist the meaning of their affirmations of purpose and to misconstrue the character of the work that goes on in them.
Despite teacher and student surveys signaling rampant violence, NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña said that school climate was improving Monday and pointed to drops in suspensions and arrests.
He was cleared to buy the gun — despite a history of violence toward peers and animals and his expulsion from the public high school for «disciplinary reasons.»
The fact that a survivor is being forced to consider changing schools illustrates that rape culture remains alive and well, despite the recent progress that's been made when it comes to discussing sexual violence.
It's the Sand Pebbles school of ostentation, such an anomaly in the early supernova of the New American Cinema as to be, despite its somewhat ambiguous resolution and cruel violence, an exact cast - fossil replica of David Lean's epic yawners.
Despite violence being an issue that stems well beyond schools, schools can make a significant impact in addressing even the most basic aggression, one that will ultimately benefit all students in the long run.
Attendance suffers when families are struggling to keep up with the routine of school despite the lack of reliable transportation, working long hours in poorly paid jobs with little flexibility, unstable and unaffordable housing, inadequate health care and escalating community violence.
Despite prodding by reporters, FES and Success have not offered any specific policy solutions to what they characterize as the city's school violence crisis.
Despite great strides in improving overall child well - being, progress has been slower in key areas of adolescent vulnerability, including exposure to violence, early marriage and school completion, especially among adolescent girls.
Second, despite problem behaviour being less common among Chinese adolescents than among their Western counterparts (Jessor et al. 2003), there is a rising trend of adolescent developmental problems, such as abuse of psychotropic substances (Shek 2007), adolescent suicide (Sun and Hui 2007) and school violence (Wong 2004).