12th Grade Critical Service Learning

Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten.

Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family.

Main Idea:

teen birth rates are much higher than the south and the lowest in the north east

Thorns:

its surprising how the highest birth rate is in such a specific part of the country, all clustered together

Further Research:

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/relationships/When-Domestic-Violence-Laws-Dont-Work/2#ixzz2IHoAf3NT

This particular part of the article was what I found to be most shocking:

an excerpt from http://www.medicinenet.com/domestic_violence/article.htm

Main Ideas: The study by the Center for Responsible Lending found that whites made up the majority of the 2.5 million foreclosures completed between 2007 and 2009 — about 56 percent — but that minority communities had significantly higher foreclosure rates.

Main Ideas: San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today is less than half of what it was back in 1970, even though the city’s total population has grown.

Main Ideas: The overall December unemployment rate remained stuck at 7.8 percent, while minorities experienced some mixed results. Prospects for black Americans declined after modest improvement in November.

According to the U-M Cardiovascular Center presented at the American college of Cardiology, “middle school children who are physically active are more likely to demonstrate good social skills, such as leadership and empathy. Researchers collected physiological data (height, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol) and responses to questionnaires on diet, exercise, leadership and empathy from 709 sixth grade public school children. A doctor in the Michigan Health System reported that “it seems that physical activity through team sports and exercise classes may have benefits beyond physical fitness. These finds suggests that children who develop leadership and empathy towards others are more likely to care about their own health, perhaps adopting life-long healthy behaviors that can prevent heart disease.” One thorn that arises for me from this article is that because recess time is related to class, does this mean that developing leadership and empathy id dependent/and or related to what neighborhood you grow up in?

These two charts display public school enrollment percentages by ethnicity. As you can see, public schools in California are predominantly made up of hispanic/ latino students (52%) and white students (26%). Interestingly, the county of San Francisco has far different numbers. In San Francisco, public schools are made up of almost 40 percent of Asian American Students, 25 percent hispanic, and 12 percent white. I find it intriguing that San Francisco is so much different than California’s estimated averages. Additionally, I would like to look further into the how these different percentages affect test scores of school districts/ counties. I would also like to find the percentages of ethnicities within private schools. The site where I found this information is below. It allows the user to look at any state and any county within that state. 

These charts show the differences between adult and teen preferences for the type of sex education information needed. Overall, both adults and teens wanted more information about both abstinence and birth control or protection. The majority of the people surveyed want more information. Therefore, more programs need to be available to people so that the wanted information can be received. 

I found this article really interesting in that they reported that more men then women and more young than old people were considered atheists. But, atheism is almost exclusively middle class to well off background which is troubling as to why. Are we really just an exclusive group? 

Further reaserch:

Race and Athiesm