Percent of teachers (grades 7 to 12) who feel that certain problems are serious or somewhat serious: 1995

Table 148.

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                                     |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
                                     |        |        |        |         |        |        |Carrying |
                                     |Drinking|  Lack  | Drug   |  Teen   | Drop-  |Violence|handguns,|Teenage
               Teacher               |        | Basic  |  Use   |Pregnancy|  outs  | in and | knives, |suicides
           characteristics           |        | Skills |        |         |        | around |   and   |
                                     |        |        |        |         |        | school | weapons |
-------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|---------|--------
                  1                  |   2    |   3    |   4    |    5    |   6    |   7    |    8    |   9
-------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|---------|--------
  All teachers ......................|     76 |     74 |     63 |      59 |     43 |     41 |      25 |     15
                                     |--------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|---------|--------
Location                             |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
  Inner city ........................|     61 |     87 |     73 |      81 |     69 |     72 |      46 |     18
  Other urban .......................|     69 |     79 |     73 |      71 |     52 |     54 |      31 |     21
  Suburb ............................|     77 |     68 |     59 |      43 |     29 |     41 |      20 |     15
  Small town ........................|     80 |     72 |     67 |      58 |     40 |     28 |      18 |     10
  Rural .............................|     80 |     74 |     55 |      62 |     47 |     30 |      24 |     13
                                     |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
Region                               |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
  East ..............................|     79 |     70 |     68 |      51 |     36 |     42 |      22 |     14
  Midwest ...........................|     80 |     66 |     62 |      58 |     37 |     37 |      19 |     16
  South .............................|     68 |     78 |     56 |      67 |     49 |     45 |      31 |     11
  West ..............................|     79 |     82 |     75 |      57 |     54 |     38 |      28 |     17
                                     |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
School level                         |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
  Junior high .......................|     63 |     74 |     58 |      46 |     30 |     43 |      27 |     14
  High school .......................|     87 |     72 |     69 |      69 |     54 |     38 |      23 |     16
                                     |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
Teaching experience                  |        |        |        |         |        |        |         |
  Fewer than 10 years ...............|     83 |     71 |     75 |      58 |     43 |     49 |      34 |     18
  10 to 19 years ....................|     70 |     72 |     57 |      55 |     40 |     35 |      21 |     12
  20 years or more ..................|     76 |     76 |     62 |      63 |     47 |     40 |      23 |     14
-------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|---------|--------

SOURCE: Metropolitan Life/Louis Harris Associates, Inc., The Metropolitan Life Survey of The American Teacher, 1984-1995. (This table was prepared April 1996.)

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