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Students who earn primarily As in school have a low level of participation in high-risk behaviors.

of the findings was that 15 percent of students with failing grades had skipped school at least once in the previous year because they believed themselves to be unsafe, either at school or on the route they had to take to get there. Only 3 percent of students who get mostly As had skipped school for safety reasons. A lack of security—either at the school itself or in the surrounding neighborhood—is not the fault of the

What Is Health, Anyway?

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