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A ripoff (or rip-off) is a grossly unfavorable financial transaction.It originated as slang that has entered into standard English usage as a business term. [1]Usually it refers to an incident in which a person is overcharged for something, or receives goods or services not of the standard expected for the price.
Several publications noted the similarities to an offer given to Twitter employees after its acquisition by Elon Musk, including an identical title. [9] [3] [10] [11] A January 28 Wired article uncovered that several high-ranking OPM staff were former employees of Musk, including a recent high school graduate, [12] which Fortune connected to the memo's similarities to that of Twitter. [13]
In the early 1990s, the University of Minnesota's landmark School Start Time Study tracked high school students from two Minneapolis-area districts – Edina, a suburban district that changed its opening hour from 7:20 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and the Minneapolis Public Schools, which changed their opening from 7:20 a.m. to 8:40 a.m.
The police are not involved in truancy control, but teachers monitor the school and its surrounding area to avoid unauthorized absences. If a pupil is absent for a long period of time, the parents may be fined. [11] The child will not be escorted to school, but the government may remove the child from the household if truancy continues.
Rip off or rip-off may refer to: Ripoff, a bad financial transaction; Confidence trick, an attempt to defraud a person; Knockoffs, or fake goods; Rip Off (video game), a 1980 arcade game; Rip-Off, a 1971 Canadian comedy; The Rip-Off, a 1980 film starring Lee Van Cleef; The Rip-Off, a crime novel by Jim Thompson
Ideally, proper study skills need to be introduced and practiced as early as possible in order for students to effectively learn positive study mechanisms. According to William G. Sommer, students in a university system often adapt to the time-constraints that are placed upon them in college, and often use cramming to perform well on tests.
The consequences of dropping out of school can have long-term economic and social repercussions. Students who drop out of school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless, receiving welfare and incarcerated. [5] A four-year study in San Francisco found that 94 percent of young murder victims were high school dropouts. [6]
The concept of time-out was invented, [4] named, and used by Arthur W. Staats in his extended work with his daughter (and later son), and was part of a long-term program of behavioral analysis beginning in 1958 that treated various aspects of child development. [5]