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Teaching Tolerance In America Summary
U03a1 Essay Rough Draft, Summary & Response
ENG1000
January 28, 2013

In the writing, “Teaching Tolerance in America”, it argue how the schools struggles through education. Some schools are doing away with graduation test and just completed the end of the course tests. There have been several school that have had issues with passing there graduation tests, violence, sexual activities, social, and the media (Devlin, 2011). The writer, Devlin, (2011) argues that America is the land of opportunity, the land we can be judged. I agree with the author 100%. Today’s world should be better than it is, we should have better behavior in schools or any public place. When I was attending high school, the class size was maxed; kids today are dropping out of school or having issues within the school. Within the last couple of months we
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Many of the children who are affected by traumatic stressors such as bullying can have their developmental processes and part of their affected by traumatic events (Ziegler, 2002). If the president has taken a strong stance on the issue of bullying, he stated, “We’ve got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal of passage” (Anderson, 2010). Many researcher and educators have theories about why bullying occurs. As Wolk (2010) noted, “Bullying are about power and control, and confronting the person that is bullying you. Many schools have been dealing with bullying within the schools lately. There have been cases where the students have killed themselves because they could handle being bullied. 48 percent reported being harassed in some way (Anderson,

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