Sentences with phrase «less school violence»

If more students befriended the loners and the bullied, then there would be less school violence.

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Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

According to the study, more parental monitoring led to less total screen time for kids and reduced exposure to media violence, which in turn led to benefits such as improved sleep, lower BMI, better school performance, improved social behavior, and reduced aggression.

(Albany, NY)-- Less than two weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, New York Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention — a bicameral coalition of New York lawmakers — released a package of bills to prevent gun violence in New York and savViolence Prevention — a bicameral coalition of New York lawmakers — released a package of bills to prevent gun violence in New York and savviolence in New York and save lives.

«We are disheartened to hear the Governor has decided to implement a School to Deportation Pipeline that will ultimately make all youth and communities less safe,» Rahsmia Zatar, executive director of STRONG YOUTH, a gang violence prevention group based in Uniondale, said in a statement.

While teen dating violence prevention programs increased knowledge and changed student attitudes to be less supportive of such behavior, they did not actually reduce dating violence, according to this meta - analysis of research on middle - and high school intervention programs, report investigators.

However, death and serious injuries due to violence are less likely to happen to children in schools than in their homes or the wider community.

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

Though national reports show that crime and violence among youths continue to increase, some students say schools are less violent than they were two years ago.

While character education is not a panacea to ridding schools of violence, it creates environments where negative and anti-social behaviors are less likely to flourish or go unnoticed and unreported, in the long - term.

A couple of gangs started playing sports after school against each other last year, and there was a lot less violence.

We need to pay less attention to political leanings and a lot closer attention to what students are saying about the current crisis of violence in our schools.

Indeed, schools that teach character education, like WSD, can look forward to «higher academic performance, improved attendance, reduced violence, fewer disciplinary issues, reduction in substance abuse, and less vandalism.»

You are less likely to be a victim of violence on a school campus than anywhere else.

Less than two months ago, hundreds of local students and community members gathered in First Ward Park, to protest gun violence in schools after 17 people were killed at one in Parkland.

Students with strong school connectedness are less likely to engage in alcohol, tobacco, or other drug use (ATOD) or violence.

The March for Our Lives, scheduled for Saturday, was organized by the students to continue the national conversation about gun safety and legislation in the U.S. and to put pressure on politicians to sign into law new measures to make large - scale acts of violence like what happened at their Parkland school less common and more difficult to replicate.

Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial for mental health, as well as for sexual and reproductive health in this population.

These local Planned Parenthood affiliates will be replicating the Teen Outreach Program (TOP), an evidence - based approach which has been proven to develop the positive potential of teens, thus leading them to more success and less risk - taking behaviors like teen pregnancy, violence, and school failure.

Bullying and physical violence has increased in our schools and communities partly because of the decreased emotional literacy, the increased stress levels, less resilience and desensitisation to violence from the screen obsession of many adolescents.

The first year of life is a period of rapid development critical to infants» health, emotional well - being and developmental trajectories.1, 2 The first signs of mental health problems are often exhibited during infancy; however, the symptoms may be overlooked by parents and healthcare providers because they can be less intrusive when a child is young.3 — 8 Early onset of emotional or behavioural problems increases the risk of numerous adverse outcomes that persist into adolescence and adulthood, such as delinquency, violence, substance abuse, mental health problems, teen pregnancies, school dropout and long - term unemployment.1, 2, 4, 9 — 14

While character education is not a panacea to ridding schools of violence, it creates environments where negative and anti-social behaviors are less likely to flourish or go unnoticed and unreported, in the long - term.

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).