Read the paragraph from an essay on preventing school bullying. (1) Bullying has a significant impact on a student's physical and emotional well
programs that will help stop bullying. (3) Establishing . school culture that
being. (2) There are many school
tolerance is crucial in putting an end to bullying.
focuses on acceptance, respect, and
Which sentence logically fits just before sentence 2?
• Students who are uncomfortable in their school setting are not as likely to earn good grades or participate in
extracurricular activities.
While some programs focus on assisting those who are affected by bullying, others concentrate on changing the
behavior of the bullies.
Schools that are able to a evoke a sense of school pride and student fellowship typically have fewer incidents of
bullying.
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of it?
witnessed an incident in school where one student relentlessly bullies another student just tOl the fun

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.