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Most significant, the Rand report questioned the very idea of having separate schools for preteens: "Research suggests that the onset of puberty is an especially poor reason for beginning a new phase of schooling." Jaana Juvonen, the UCLA psychologist who spent more than 18 months crunching data for the report, believes that 11- and 12-year-olds are already dealing with so many changes that it makes little sense to pile on a change in schools. "Right around the time that most kids are transferring to middle school, everything starts to happen," she says. "There's physical development...
...urban areas, middle schools often became the antithesis of what reformers had intended. Instead of warm incubators of independence and judgment, they became impersonal, oppressive institutions. "In many urban schools," says Juvonen, "you can't help but notice that there are security guards around. There's someone expecting you to misbehave." That's especially destructive, she says, because young adolescents need their independence to be guided and nurtured, not squashed. "This is when kids start challenging social conventions. They say things like 'Why do I have to make my bed?' It's proof of their cognitive maturity...
Since most bullying takes place furtively--in hallways, bathrooms, the back of the school bus--teachers have a hard time controlling it. It's not impossible, though: with the help of Nishina's UCLA adviser and study co-author, Jaana Juvonen, a local elementary school put together a program in which teachers, parents and students review antibullying rules at the start of each year. The students do role-playing exercises and sign contracts promising not to bully. Teachers incorporate lessons about bullying and coping strategies into classwork. The school has also hired extra staff to monitor places like lunchrooms...
Wings John Damis and Jim Reark accounted for five of the tries on classic scoring plays which involved passing the ball all the way down the scrum. Ian Paisley-Taylor scored one try, and Jim Beery and Ron Juvonen picked a try apiece from the interior part of the scrum...
Keith Julian, John Hutchinson, Bill Mares, John Damis, Ian Pasley-Tyler, and Richard Carey are the starting backs. The scrums should be John van Schalkwyck, Ron Juvonen, Jim Beery, Gene Skowronski, Mike Auer, Lyle Mishell, Dick Schulman, and Lee Freeman. If you like a fast, rough game, drop by the old House football field...