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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1990
SURVEY ON UNRULY AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR IN SCHOOLS
SECONDARY 1 TO 3 STUDENTS CONTINUE TO UNRULY AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR IN SCHOOL.
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PRONE
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SAID THIS TODAY
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (WEDNESDAY) IN ANNOUNCING THE RESULTS OF THE 1988-89 SURVEY ON AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR IN SCHOOLS.
UNRULY
"THE FINDINGS INDICATE
MORAL EDUCATION RESTS WITH
THAT
OF
TEACHING
IN DEALING WITH
AND UNRULY OTHER FORMS AND AG:
JUNIOR STUDENTS,
ALTHOUGH THE RESPONSIBILITY
TEACHERS OF THE EVERY TEACHER,
SECONDARY 1 SECONDARY FORMS, PARTICULARLY THOSE HAVE A HEAVIER SHARE OF RESPONSIBILITY DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS THAN TEACHERS OF GROUPS," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
211,151 OF
INCIDENTS REPORTED IN 1988-89 TOTALLED 227,096 AGAINST FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR, WITH THE GREAT MAJORITY (93 PER CENT) BEING
ONLY A MINORITY THE LESS SERIOUS CATEGORY OF UNRULY BEHAVIOUR WHILE
SERIOUS CATEGORY OF DELINQUENT (SEVEN PER CENT) WERE OF BEHAVIOUR.
THE MORE
THE SPOKESMAN ATTRIBUTED THE RISE
UNRULY BEHAVIOUR AND THE SURVEY FROM SCHOOLS.
EXTREMELY
ΤΟ
HIGH
INCREASED REPORTING
OF RESPONSE RATE
OF
TO
THE
IS INDEED REMARKABLE "A RESPONSE RATE OF NEARLY 100 PER CENT
OF RESPONSIBILITY AMONG AND IT INDICATES A CONTINUING STRONG SENSE
STAFF, AND AN AWARENESS THAT BOTH SCHOOL HEADS AND THEIR TEACHING STUDENT BEHAVIOUR IN SCHOOLS IS AN AREA REQUIRING CONSTANT AND STUDY," HE SAID.
ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF
1988-89
INCIDENTS (211,825) IN 1987-88.
INCREASED
MONITORING
BY EIGHT
UNRULY BEHAVIOUR
PER
CENT
OVER
FOUR THE
MORE COMMON
REPRESENTING ABOUT 72 PER CENT DESCENDING ORDER OF FREQUENCY):
CATEGORIES
OF ALL
OF SUCH
UNRULY INCIDENTS,
BEHAVIOUR,
WERE
(IN
*
HABITUAL FAILURE TO HAND IN ASSIGNMENTS/BRING STATIONERY TO SCHOOL (77,862);
TEXTBOOKS OR
*
HABITUAL LATENESS (33,991);
*
*
INSOLENT OR REBELLIOUS BEHAVIOUR (20,971); AND
DISCIPLINARY OFFENCES TO ATTRACT ATTENTION (20,579).
(OUT OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR INCIDENTS, WHICH NUMBERED 15,271
SEPTEMBER 1988), A TOTAL SECONDARY SCHOOL POPULATION OF 442,000 AT
WITH REGISTERED A 1.5 PER CENT INCREASE AS COMPARED WITH 1987-88 AND,
AND INVOLVEMENT VIOLENCE
IN THE EXCEPTION OF ACTS OF PHYSICAL
HAVE DECREASED WHEN GAMBLING, ALL OTHER CATEGORIES WERE REPORTED TO COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
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