Definitions
A person who leaves school before completing the required program of education
What is a Drop Out?
Failed courses, low grade point average, absences, or being "pushed out"
What is the school indicators of potentially dropping out?
A form of expression protected by the First Amendment but not associated with actually speaking words; examples include wearing symbols on buttons or carrying protest messages on signs.
What is Passive Speech?
Book bag control, Random checks, Computer and electronic device monitoring, Threat reporting
What is the Monitoring Measures in Schools?
The Court found that students are in fact constitutionally protected from illegal searches, but school officials are not bound by the same restrictions as law enforcement agents. Police need “probable cause” before they can conduct a search, but educators can legally search students when there are reasonable grounds to believe the students have violated the law or broken school rules.
What is New Jersey v. T.L.O.?
Schools at which the graduation rate is 40 percent or less
What is a Dropout Factory?
Personal Problems, Social Class, Tracking, Alienation
What is the Correlates of School failure?
The federal government found that although teenagers spend only 25 percent of their time in school, 40 percent of the robberies and 36 percent of the physical attacks involving this age group occur there.
What is Violent Schools–Safe Schools (1977)?
Access control, Lighting control, Gates, Picture IDs, Security cameras
What is the Security Measures in School?
The Court allowed the testing of student athletes who were going off campus to engage in events.
What is Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton?
Dividing students into groups according to their ability and achievement levels.
What is Tracking?
1.) Delinquency causes school failure
2.) School failure is a direct cause of delinquent behavior
3.) School failure leads to emotional and psychological problems
4.) School failure and delinquency share a common cause
What is the School-Failure Delinquency Connection?
Expressing an opinion by speaking or writing; freedom of speech is a protected right under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is Active Speech?
Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral, Environmental, Theraputic
What is Prevalent Strategy Programs?
The Court extended the right to test for drugs without probable cause to all students as long as the drug-testing policies were “reasonable.”
What is Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County et al. v. Earls et al.?
Repeated negative acts committed by one or more children against another.
What is Bullying?
School level, Individual level, Community level
What is the Components that Cause School Crime?
Discipline is one of the parental duties given to the school system
What is in loco parentis?
Restricts disclosure of information from a student’s education records without parental consent.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
A suspect’s age must be considered in determining whether a confession was freely given and whether they believed they were in custody.
what is J.D.B. V. NORTH CAROLINA?
Mandating specific consequences or punishments for delinquent acts and not allowing anyone to avoid these consequences.
What is Zero Tolerance Policy?
Social withdrawal, Excessive feelings of isolation and being alone, Excessive feelings of rejection, Being a victim of violence, Feelings of being picked on and persecuted, Preferred lifestyle, Expression of violence in writings and drawings, Uncontrolled anger, History of violent and aggressive behavior, Membership in hate groups, Drug use and alcohol use, Inappropriate access to, possession of, and use of firearms, Serious threats of violence
What is the Factors Linked to School Violence?
The Court held that neither the Eighth nor the Fourteenth Amendment was violated by a teacher’s use of corporal punishment to discipline students.
What is Ingraham v. Wright?