1. Six out of ten students in high school admit use of illicit drugs. Over 90% of high school seniors have used alcohol.

2. Despite a much smaller teen population and despite more frequent contraceptive use, about 1.1 million teenagers became pregnant in 1991 - roughly the same figure as for the last ten years. Forty percent of today's fourteen-year-old girls will become pregnant by the time they are nineteen.

3. Suicides among young people have risen by 300% over the last thirty years, and one in seven teens say they have tried to commit suicide.

4. An estimated 525,000 attacks, shakedown, and robberies occur in public high schools each month. Each year nearly three million crimes are committed on or near school property - 16,000 per school day. About 135,000 students carrying a weapon of some type. 21% of all secondary school students avoid using the rest rooms out of fear of being harms or intimidated. Surveys of school children reveal that their chief school-related concern is the disruptive behavior of their classmates. Teachers have similar concerns. Almost one third of public school teachers indicate that they have seriously considered leaving teaching because of student misbehavior.