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Table 10. Percentage of public middle schools reporting selected disciplinary problems happening daily, at least once a week, at least once a month, or never, by type of disciplinary problems: 1999–2000
| Type of disciplinary problem | Daily | At least once a week |
At least once a month |
On occasion | Never |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student racial tensions | 1 | 4 | 5 | 56 | 33 |
| Student bullying | 18 | 26 | 22 | 33 | 2 |
| Student verbal abuse of teachers | 5 | 17 | 14 | 52 | 12 |
| Widespread disorder in classrooms | 1 | 4 | 6 | 37 | 51 |
| Student acts of disrespect for teachers | 10 | 20 | 18 | 47 | 5 |
| Undesirable gang1 activities | # | # | 3 | 27 | 69 |
| Undesirable cult or extremist group2 activities | # | # | ‡ | 13 | 87 |
| # Rounds to zero. | |||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | |||||
| 1 Gang was defined for respondents as, "an ongoing loosely organized association of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, that has a common name, signs, symbols or colors, whose members engage, either individually or collectively, in violent or other forms of illegal behavior." | |||||
| 2 Cult or extremist group was defined for respondents as, "a group that espouses radical beliefs and practices, which may include a religious component, that are widely seen as threatening the basic values and cultural norms of society at large." | |||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. "At school/at your school" was defined for respondents as including activities happening in school buildings, on school grounds, on school buses, and at places that are holding school-sponsored events or activities. Respondents were instructed to, unless the survey specified otherwise, only respond for those times that were during normal school hours or when school activities/events were in session. Middle schools are defined as schools in which the lowest grade is not lower than grade 4 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 9. | |||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2000. | |||||
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