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Lifefeatures' Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Sunday, September 26, 1982 3D Parents influence students' behavior most, study shows By PAT ORDOVENSKY The better behavior of middle-income kids, which appears consistently across all age levels, ethnic groups and geographic regions, is called "puzzling" by the researchers. "It is possible," they say, "that higher-status parents are less awed by the authority that the school and its teachers represent and they pass this orientation on to their est among students whose fathers have a college degree and are earning less than $7,000. They are second-highest where the father is wealthy but didn't finish high school and was "able to achieve material success without the help of school." The survey also finds that discipline is better in Catholic high schools than in any other variety. earn more than $38,000.

In all categories, the frequency of misbehavior decreases as income levels rise from poor to middle-class, then shoots up in the higher-, income brackets. The numbers also show that parents are "less inclined to teach respect for school if they themselves have not found it useful," the report says. Discipline problems are high Students from the poorest families have the highest rates of misbehavior, the report shows, but the highest-income students are a close second. For example, students whose parents earn less than $7,000 are most likely to cut class, ignore homework, show up late and have serious trouble with the law. In almost all categories, the second-highest rates are among students whose parents parental attitudes, expectations and monitoring of a student's work have a substantial effect on behavior.

These findings come in a statistic-packed report called "Discipline, Order and Student Behavior in American High Schools," produced by the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the U.S. Education Department. It looks only at the scope of the discipline problem and does not attempt to offer solutions. It is based on a survey of students at 1,015 schools across the country, conducted for the Education Department in 1980. Chicago sociologist James Coleman took data from the same survey for his controversial 1981 report comparing public and private schools.

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