Understanding Your Child’s School Attendance Problem

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-56
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Initial Problem ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Actual Time ◽  
The Right

This chapter is designed to help parents keep track of and record their child’s attendance, level of distress, and morning behavior problems. The chapter is designed to assist parents in becoming more aware of a child’s actual time in school, identify how their child’s behavior changes during the week, discover why their child is having trouble attending school, seeing whether the methods in the book are indeed working, exchange more detailed information with school officials and others, and look for signs that a school attendance problem may be recurring after the initial problem was fixed. Worksheets are provided to assist parents in these tasks and to ease communication with school officials. An introduction is given regarding different reasons why students have trouble attending school to steer parents in the right directions in the book.

Prevention and Special Circumstances

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
School Children ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Return To School ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
Future School

This chapter provides an overview of prevention strategies to help stave off possible future school attendance problems once they are resolved. The chapter focuses on continued practice of methods that best helped a child return to school; continued tracking of attendance, distress, and morning behavior problems; continued contact with school officials; continued meetings with a child; and continued reminders and expectations regarding school attendance. Special circumstances include leaving for work early in the morning, multiple children in a family who have difficulty attending school, children with developmental disorders, and referral to the legal system. Suggestions for what to do if the book was less helpful are also provided, and the chapter is linked to the next one on more severe school attendance problems.

Mood-Altering Drugs and Hyperkinetic Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
Gerald Erenberg
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Brain Dysfunction ◽  
Initial Problem ◽  
School Behavior ◽  
Minimal Brain Dysfunction ◽  
Recent Letter ◽  
Hyperactive Behavior ◽  
Organic Process ◽  
Pediatric Neurologist ◽  
Prescribing Medication

Dr. Ralph Olsen's recent letter to the Editor,1 questioning the validity of prescribing medication for all children with school behavior problems, is more acceptable to me than the opinions stated in the response of Dr. L. Eugene Arnold.2 As a pediatric neurologist, I have first-hand knowledge of the frequency with which this request is made and have had many opportunities to evaluate the results of pharmacotherapy. The initial problem is that of identifying the child whose hyperactive behavior is due to minimal brain dysfunction (by definition an "organic" process).

scholarly journals Right of Knowing and Using Mother Tongue: A Mixed Method Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Burhan Ozfidan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Mother Tongue Education ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Right

Language is a crucial factor for the academic achievement of minority people. Speaking the mother tongue in school increases self-confidence and thinking skills, and conveys freedom of speech. Mother tongue is an inseparable element of his or her culture and that everyone has the right to learn his or her mother tongue. The main objective of this current study is to illustrate the need for a language curriculum and to investigate what parameters will influence the development of a mother tongue. This study used an explanatory sequential mixed method, conducted in two phases: a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. For quantitative data collection, 140 participants responded the survey instrument. For qualitative data collection, 12 participants were interviewed. The results indicated that everyone has the right to be taught in their mother tongue. Mother tongue education is necessary for a student to have an equal access to education and gain benefits from education as do others. Mother tongue education has a crucial role in ensuring school attendance, raising the quality of education, and integrating children into society. Therefore, the findings reflected that a bilingual education program is necessary to be educated in mother tongue.

Civil Rights and Schools: Tinker v. Des Moines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Schumaker
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Supreme Court Ruling ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
Public School Classroom ◽  
The Right

The 1969 Supreme Court ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines established that students in public elementary and secondary schools do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Before Tinker, students often faced punishment from school officials for their role in protests both on and off campus. A rise in civil rights protests and the role of young people in the social movements of the 1960s led to frequent conflicts between students and school administrators. Many black students were especially vocal in contesting racial discrimination at school in the two decades following the 1954Brown v. Board of Education decision. But before Tinker, students in public elementary and secondary schools were not considered to have any constitutional rights, including the right to free expression. Some of these students brought lawsuits in response to punishments they believed unfairly disciplined them for participating in legitimate protests. The political activism of young people and developments in First Amendment law eventually brought the Constitution into the public school classroom, leading to Tinker and other cases that established students’ rights.

A method for evaluation of blood substitutes in the conscious animal

1983 ◽  
Vol 245 (3) ◽  
pp. H519-H523 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Goodin ◽  
W. P. Clarke ◽  
K. Taylor ◽  
R. Eccles ◽  
R. P. Geyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Substitutes ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Conscious Rat ◽  
Total Blood ◽  
Blood Replacement ◽  
Conscious Animal ◽  
Double Lumen Catheter ◽  
Lumen Catheter ◽  
Minimal Modification ◽  
The Right

Physiological evaluation of new and potential blood replacement agents has not kept pace with the development of such agents. Current procedures involve partial or total blood replacement in the anesthetized animal. This introduces the variable of anesthesia and eliminates the ability to observe behavior changes during blood replacement. Clinically, many patients receive blood or will receive artificial agents while sedated or under anesthesia, whereas others will be conscious. It is essential that evaluative studies be performed on the awake animal using procedures that are nontraumatic and nonrestrictive. A technique for isovolumic exchange perfusion utilizing an indwelling, heparin-coated, double-lumen catheter in the right atrium of a conscious rat is described. This animal model system permits continuous pre- and postperfusion monitoring. Nearly total blood replacement with perfluorochemical blood substitutes causes no discerniable discomfort or adverse reactions in the animal. Such animals thrive and replace missing hematologic components in 1-3 wk. The technique described can, with minimal modification, be used for isovolumic exchange perfusion of larger animals.

Educational Gerrymandering? Race and Attendance Boundaries in a Demographically Changing Suburb

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
School Systems ◽  
Racial Isolation ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Suburban Communities ◽  
Mapping Software ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
High School Attendance

In this article, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley illuminates the challenges and opportunities posed by demographic change in suburban school systems. As expanding student populations stretch the enrollment capacities of existing schools in suburban communities, new schools are built and attendance lines are redrawn. This redistricting process can be used either to foster school diversity or to exacerbate racial isolation. Drawing on data from the U.S. Census, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the school district, along with mapping software from Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Siegel-Hawley examines the relationship between overcrowding, racial isolation, and the original, proposed, and final high school attendance zones in a changing suburban district. Findings indicate that school officials responsible for the rezoning process failed to embrace the growing diversity of the school system, choosing instead to solidify extreme patterns of racial isolation within high school attendance areas. The segregative impact of the district's new attendance zones may be subject to legal scrutiny, a consequence that could—and should—discourage other school systems from adopting similarly harmful redistricting policies.

Behavior Problems and Social Functioning in Adolescents With Language Impairment

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Courtney Karasinski
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Narrative Comprehension ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Social Deficits ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Linguistic Skills

Adolescents with language impairment (LI) often are underidentified and may be perceived as lazy or noncompliant, rather than as individuals with LI. In this article, the author discusses two possible reasons for this underdiagnosis of LI in adolescents. First, many adolescents with LI present with comorbid behavior problems, which may be the primary concern of parents and school officials. Second, some adolescents with LI perform within age expectations on basic linguistic skills, but difficulties are apparent in higher-level linguistic tasks, including oral and written narrative comprehension and production. Given that adolescents with LI may present with comorbid behavior and academic and social deficits, it is crucial that speech-language pathologists provide identification, direct intervention, consultation with teachers, and leadership in order to facilitate improvement in behavioral, academic, and social functioning. The article provides recommendations for and examples of interventions, which must be administered using contextually relevant activities, and also highlights the importance of collaboration with others in the adolescent’s social and academic settings.

Forging the Path Forward from Censorship

2015 ◽  
pp. 590-605
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Constitution ◽  
Student Speech ◽  
School Officials ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lower Courts ◽  
The Right

This chapter presents the conclusions to the book. It discusses ideas for the future of the off-campus student-speech jurisprudence. This discussion includes guidance for school officials and students on how to navigate the jurisprudence. The discussion urges school officials to exercise censorship restraint when confronted with off-campus student speech unless the speech constitutes a true threat. It also implores school officials and lower courts to treat students as citizens entitled to the right to free speech under the United States Constitution. Consonantly, the chapter recommends that school officials leave censorship of off-campus speech to law enforcement as well as the civil and criminal judicial processes as obtains for the citizenry at large. The goal of the chapter is to recommend ideas that students, school officials and lower courts can consider in order to minimize the abridgement of students' right to speech in off-campus settings.

Getting Your Child Back to School

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
School Attendance ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Extended Time ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Inappropriate Behaviors ◽  
Time Out ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
Out Of School

Many parents find getting their child to school in the morning a challenge. If your child consistently pleads with you to let him stay home from school, if she skips school or is often late to school, if his morning routine is fraught with misbehaviors, or if she exhibits signs of distress and anxiety related school attendance, this book can help. Getting Your Child Back to School: A Parent’s Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems is designed to help address your child’s school attendance problems in the early stages. This guide helps identify different school attendance problems and provides step-by-step instructions to help solve the problem and learn different techniques for getting your child to school, including monitoring your child’s behavior, working with school officials, practicing enhanced relaxation, changing your child’s distressed thoughts about school, establishing a clear and predictable morning routine, setting up a system of rewards for going to school, handling inappropriate behaviors, writing clear agreements, and helping your child decline offers to miss school. Suggestions are made for preventing attendance problems in the future, dealing with special circumstances, addressing severe attendance problems, and handling extended time periods out of school. Easy to read and filled with concrete strategies, this book is the first of its kind to educate parents and arm them with tools needed to resolve their child’s school attendance problem. The book covers severe attendance problems and suggestions for families who must endure an extended period of time out of school due to school shutdowns.

Educational Regulation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert N. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Catholic School ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
School Officials ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Chapter 3 traces the history of educational regulation in the nineteenth century. It argues that as Catholic school attendance grew in the late nineteenth century, Catholic school advocates, along with public officials, envisioned the many benefits of tethering private education to state goals. Together, Catholic and public school officials helped blur the sharp distinctions between public and private that had existed for much of the nineteenth century, as symbolized by the Dartmouth v. Woodward (1819) decision. First in Rhode Island and then in Ohio Catholics accepted, and indeed fought for, forms of public regulation in return for maintaining an important fiscal subsidy: the property tax exemption. Courts in these states, and elsewhere, generally obliged, and in doing so granted public bodies significantly greater authority to regulate private actors.

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