Sophia has been removed from her family and placed into foster care for the second time in the last 2 years due to her mother’s ongoing substance abuse. Sophia has missed many days of school and often comes to school dirty and wearing clothes from the day before. Sophia’s mother does not think she has a problem and blames the system for once again taking her daughter.…
Sophia has been removed from her family and placed into foster care for the second time in the last 2 years due to her mother’s ongoing substance abuse. Sophia has missed many days of school and often comes to school dirty and wearing clothes from the day before. Sophia’s mother does not think she has a problem and blames the system for once again taking her daughter.…
On March 7th, 1980, two high school freshman were found smoking in the bathroom at Piscataway High School in Middlesex County, NJ. The students were escorted to the vice principal Mr. Choplick’s office. The defendant, TLO, who was one of the students that were caught smoking denied the accusation. Mr. Choplick inspected TLO’s purse and found a box of cigarettes. Afterward removing the box of cigarettes, he saw a pack of rolling papers. Mr. Choplick suspected that a closer examination of the purse may yield evidence of drug use and that a thorough inspection would be needed. After a thorough search, he found a small amount of marijuana, a pipe, a number of empty plastic bags, a large amount one dollar bills, an index card with a list of who…
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, she was failing until she turned in a missing assignment. I asked Chardonnay if she had gotten any trouble lately. Chardonnay stated she couldn’t remember when she got in trouble, but she did remember that she was upset about something. Chardonnay…
Having worked closely with Kandyce McCary I can whole-heartedly recommend her to be selected for your university. Kandyce is an outstanding student, who possesses a keen work ethic, and solid educational skills. Kandyce has worked her entire senior year at her position in JROTC, while maintaining a solid reputation as a dependable high school student. Kandyce has been a student at West Bladen her entire four years of high school. W. Due to her exposure in JROTC she can easily adapt to the situation at hand.…
Sophia has been removed from her family and placed into foster care for the second time in the last 2 years due to her mother’s ongoing substance abuse. Sophia has missed many days of school and often comes to school dirty and wearing clothes from the day before. Sophia’s mother does not think she has a problem and blames the system for once again taking her daughter.…
Financial stability at Port Allen High School is an issue every day. Compared to Brusly High School, which is the only other high school in the West Baton Rouge Parish, the school is struggling. Although teachers and faculty work to make the best out of the financial situation. Students and teachers must pitch in to help the school raise money in the forms of student bake sales, teachers applying for grants, and getting sponsors for the school.…
Sophia has been removed from her family and placed into foster care for the second time in the last 2 years due to her mother’s ongoing substance abuse. Sophia has missed many days of school and often comes to school dirty and wearing clothes from the day before. Sophia’s mother does not think she has a problem and blames the system for once again taking her daughter.…
In this case study Jeanette, is a Hispanic middle school student who has been referred to the school counselor for academic and social support by her homeroom teacher. Jeanette’s grades are declining and she is also experiencing social issues. There have been rumors that she is a lesbian, a claim which Jeanette denies. However, girls at school do not feel comfortable dressing for gym in front of her and her mother found a love letter from another female. The counselor has had a conversation with Jeanette where she denied being homosexual. However, when the second referral from the teacher about Jeanette’s sexuality was given to the counselor she immediately asked to be removed from Jeanette’s case due to a religious conflict.…
Imagine, disappointed students as they are at a disadvantage in scholarship competitions from students in other school districts because they have fewer AP classes than the next kid. They are put further in debt as they waste money unsure of what their major should be. In the school, classes are have far too many students in a class making it very difficult to teach. Teachers struggling to properly prep for and handle the workload of 5 different classes. This is not something one has to imagine, because this the reality at East Jordan Middle High School. East Jordan is facing all of these problems, because EJMHS is understaffed. East Jordan does not have enough teaching staff as they must to run a school. All of these problems have one solution…
Carolina High School, located in Greenville County, was established in 1956 as a 9th through 12th grade public high school. In 1995, the school was chosen to be a magnet school where at its peak had a student enrollment of over 1300. When the needs of the community changed and local mills closed, the dynamics of the community changed, dropping enrollment down by several hundred students. By 2000, the average family income was just above $22,000, where a little over 9% of the families were reported by the 2000 Census as earning less than $15,000 per year. Due to the changes in the surroundings of the school, the school suffered from great challenges. In a location stricken by poverty, the enrollment in 2008 was a little over 700 students with over 80% of the population being minority and served by the free and reduced lunch…
My school Havre Middle School is located in Northcentral Montana between two Native American Reservations; Rocky Boy Reservation and Fort Belknap Reservation. The population of Havre is 10,500 people. The demographics of our school stem highly of Native Americans. Havre Middle school has a student body of about 450 students, 30 teachers, and 15 paraprofessionals. The middles school is overseen by two full time administrators. I have worked in the Havre Public School system for 1 year. I am very committed to working in the Havre Middle School, where I will continue my role as a Science teacher, colleague, friend, and community member.…
Even though nobody from his immediate family, i.e., his parents and siblings, suffers from a drug problem, he has distant relatives with minor alcohol problems. He is an average achiever who has a considerable social gathering and has had good feedback from his previous teachers. His parents have not been strict with him before, but they realize that now he is entering an important phase of his life which will impact his career. So they are tough with their son and keep a close eye on him. There is also a lot of competition in high school. Furthermore, the people around him are also experimenting with new things, and these things mostly include drugs. In short, Mark has never been scolded by his parents. He also has deal with the tougher competition and he also feels that he needs to belong to some group to survive high school. So, one can see that the boy is under quite a lot of pressure from his parents, school teachers and peers, and his hormonal changes are not making things easier for him. So Mark started using minor drugs to deal with the pressure and to be part of the ‘cool guys’ in high school. When his parents discovered it, they decided that Mark was in need of proper counseling to tackle his drug…
Some of Lauren’s problematic behaviours, which have been identified according to her consultation with Rob, are that: 1. She is not taking her asthma medication; this could be influenced by alcohol consumption because alcohol consumption makes you more forgetful and less likely to adhere to medical advice from a professional. 2. Lauren also not doing well at school is another problematic behaviour, her alcohol consumption has an affect on this, and it decreases her concentration, which leads to poor academic performance in her schooling. 3.…
The plaintiff Rafael, at the time was an eight- year old boy with Down syndrome, a genetic defect that impaired his intellectual and speech ability. The District’s Child Study Team evaluated and recommended Rafael to attention a self-contained special education class outside of his school district. Rafael parents found the recommended schools to be unacceptable. The District and parents came to an agreement that Rafael would attend a developmental kindergarten class for children not fully ready for kindergarten in the mornings, and a special education class in another school district in the afternoons. Rafael made some progress in the developmental kindergarten class however he also had some behavior difficulties. The Child Study Team determined the best placement for the following school year would be segregated special…