Jim Glover, the principal, said he missed school, neglected homework and performed poorly, but was not violent.
That Parkway School neglected to tell administrators of its plans irked the main office.
In school, neglected young children are more likely to have trouble distinguishing emotions in others, and preschoolers are more likely to be overly dependent on their teachers.
For the three teens in "Web Junkie," their gaming addiction, sometimes referred to as "electronic heroin," leads them to drop out of school, neglect their family and friends, and experience poor health due to lack of sleep, proper nutrition, and exercise.
The idea is to prevent schools neglecting harder-to-teach groups, such as Spanish-speaking Latinos.
People were also concerned about neglected schools, neglected infrastructure, health care changes that hurt the poor and the disabled.
But when elementary and middle schools neglect science, students seek to avoid taking science courses in high school.
In a 1943 opinion, for example, the court prohibited schools from requiring that students salute the American flag, warning that if public schools neglected constitutional rights, minors would incorrectly conclude that governmental authority recognized no limits.
In recent months, for example, three separate studies - by the U.S. Department of Education, the People for the American Way and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State - have reported that history textbooks in public schools neglect the role of religion.
When schools neglect their duty it is left to black parents in particular, in this respect, but wider society in general, and the arts, to pick up the pieces and make the change.
