Parents, students and teachers have different views on students' sources of
help when they feel sad or depressed.
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Parents report that their teen would most likely go to the following people:
family (86%), friends (46%) and educators (15%).
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Teachers report their students would most likely go to the following people:
educators (80%), friends (64%) and family (30%).
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Students report that they could go to the following people: friends (77%), fam-
ily (63%) and educators (33%).
VII. Community Involvement
Parents are more likely to think that their teens do things to help out their
neighbors and their community than teens themselves report.
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Half (50%) of teens say they do things to help out their neighbors.
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Two-thirds (67%) of parents of teens say their child does things to help out their
neighbors.
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Half (48%) of teens say they do things to help out their community.
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Six in ten (61%) parents of teens say their child does things to help out their
community.
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Eight in ten (84%) teens think it's very important to vote in elections, compared
to nine in ten (94%) parents of teens.
VIII. Teacher Challenges
Some of the challenges teachers face come from their relationships with stu-
dents in terms of trust, while others come from their own expectations about
the future of education.
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Four in ten (39%) secondary school students trust their teachers only a little or
not at all.
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Minority students are more likely than non-minority students to report this level
of trust (47% vs. 37%).
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Students whose families have a hard time buying things (53%) are more likely
than those with just enough (39%) or who can buy anything (38%) to report this
level of trust.
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Only slightly more than half (56%) of teachers believe that schools will provide
a better education during their students' lifetime.
IX. Warning Signs
Several aspects of students' lives are related to issues of preparedness for the
future, including low quality of life, low income and minority status.
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Low-income students are more likely than high income students to have a low
quality of life (65% vs. 24%).
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Students with a low quality of life grade their teachers more harshly overall than
those with a high quality of life (B- vs. B).
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