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    Caseworker Brittany Martinez completed a face to face visit with Chardonnay Hunnicutt at John Horn High School located in Mesquite‚ Texas. I sat with Chardonnay and Caseworker Erica Elliott in the Assistant Principal’s office. Chardonnay was wearing a purple shirt with blue jeans. Chardonnay’s hair’s appeared to be worn in an Afro style‚ she stated she had taken her braids out the night before. I asked Chardonnay how school was going. Chardonnay stated that her grades were good‚ but in one of her classes

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    The textbook describes how‚ historically‚ different criticisms have been voiced about the use of reinforcement and punishment with school-age children. The author explains that these concerns reflect a lack of understanding or possible misunderstandings of behaviorist principles. There were two myths and misconceptions that particularly peaked my interest. The first myth/ misconception states that “reinforcement leads to dependence on concrete‚ external rewards for appropriate behavior” (p.78)

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    • Each state funds their schools as well as the federal government. Each level has their own rules and regulations and mixed agendas. The ‘Blob’ we have created to help make are schools better‚ is actually making them worse according to the documentary. There is no accountability for producing results for kids. Additionally‚ one of the rules most schools have is that the children have to live within the district‚ or city the school subsides in‚ for them to be eligible to attend. This creates unequal

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    Non-vaccinated Children Allowed to Attend Public Schools – This Is Not Acceptable Assignment 4 – Persuasive Paper Part 1: Revision of a Problem Exists English 215 February 24‚ 2013 This is a question that every parent must consider when they allow their school-aged child to attend public or even private school. How do you feel about allowing your child to attend school with children who have not been vaccinated? Would it bother you? I’m sure there are several different answers to these

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    After School Jobs (Good or Bad) Waking up at seven o’clock in the morning to get ready for school that starts at eight is already tiring by itself. You go to school for eight hours and get out around three o’clock‚ just to go home and do a little bit of your homework for an hour. Then two hours later‚ you have to go to work. This is a typical life of a teen with an after school job. Young people ranging from fourteen to eighteen years of age are frequently staffing after school jobs. Kids are

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    they will be harmful to others around other kids in school. Vaccinations can prevents illnesses‚ diseases‚ mumps‚ rubella‚ polio‚ hepatitis B‚ whooping cough‚ and chickenpox. Children who attend public schools should receive vaccinations to prevent illnesses and diseases. The first reason why kids should receive vaccinations is so everyone

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    Overcoming Life’s Obstacles Does a bad experience as a child determine one’s future? I refused to let planers choose who I was going to be. When I was child‚ I experienced some real traumatic situations growing up‚ my family and society’s statistics labeled me as if I would not have a successful future. My family often said to me‚ ”you will never be anything in life”. “You will end up in prison or dead.” Society’s statistics labeled my future as one that would involve in depression and poor

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    HI and grew up in a family of 5 until my freshman year of high school. That’s when my parents decided to expand our family to 6. The next few summers of my high school years were dedicated to babysitting my brother. Surprisingly‚ I enjoyed spending my time with him and teaching him new things. The summer before my senior year I had the opportunity to volunteer with a Summer Fun program. I worked with kindergarten aged children doing what I love. Arts and crafts! Combining the two made it even

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    Is ADHD Over-diagnosed Among School Children? After reading the review‚ (Is ADHD over-diagnosed among school children?) by C. Collins‚ I am in agreement with T. E. Elder in that yes‚ ADHD is over-diagnosed. I chose to accompany the review by C. Collins with the article‚ Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder‚ which originated from the Facts on File; Issues and Controversies Database. After reading both the review and the article I highly believe that ADHD is definitely over-diagnosed. In the

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    HTime series using Holt-Winters Forecasting Procedure Summary The Holt-Winters forecasting procedure is a simple widely used projection method which can cope with trend and seasonal variation. We can apply this method to lots of fields such as banking data analysis‚ investment forecasting‚ inventory controlling and so on. This paper shows us a practical banking credit card example using Holt-Winter method in Java programming for data forecasting. The reason we use Holt-Winter is that this

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