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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.

BE THE MOST

PRONE

то

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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