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But the responses to date, I think prove my point*********************************************************
about any constructive
suggestion getting attacked from all sides--with the
tone decidedly colored
by political philosophies. The biggest problems are
not the teachers or the
administrations, it is all the outside influences.
;-)
Look, if nothing else, uniforms reduce a LOT of
wasted time on the part of
teachers and administrators (my wife has been both)
dealing with student
dress. One might want to look at some of the
private schools that do
outperform the public schools and notice that many
have very strict dress
codes or uniforms.
Now to stir up thing even more, let me propose that
we separate the sexes
from 5th grade through HS (and if you do that, you
can probably do without
the uniforms).
[Does anyone want to talk 9-month boarding schools
to really improve
learning! ]
Rick
Richard W. Tarara********************************************************
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Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, Indiana
rtarara@saintmarys.edu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Haskell" <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Is this OT?
At 11:22 -0500 9/5/02, Rick Tarara quoted:overall school crime
In the first year following implementation,
decreased
between students, by 51%;by 36%; sex offenses, by 74%; physical fights
offenses, by 34%; schoolweapons offenses, by 50%; assault and battery
18%.[13,18]suspensions, by 32%; and vandalism, by
questions than they
As usual clips like these always raise more
answer. The first one that pops to my mind is,what else was going on
at the same time? We aren't told how the distict'sstatisticians
controlled for the "uniform" variable. Often suchactions are coupled
with increased vigilance on the part of the schooladministration and
faculty, which is likely to have a large effect onsuch events,
regardless of whether uniforms were mandated atthe same time or not.
I would like to see data on how things were afterseveral years, when
attention to the problems that led to the changehad dropped back to
the pre-change level. There easily could have beenany number of
things done without the fanfare given to theuniforms that made a
difference--increased police presence on campus,improved
communications on campus, better counsellingservices available, more
administrators patrolling the halls, bettercommunications with
parents, more involvement by faculty, and on andon. We are told
nothing about these things, one way or the other.All we hear about
is the change that the article's author isfocusing on.
to, Windows because they
Hardly a scientific result.
Hugh
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