Deter School Shootings

After the Sandy Hook, there were countless ways for students to be safe at school. In Preparing for the Unthinkable: School Safety after Sandy Hook news article, Vicki Bauman said, “ Instead of gates, guns, and metal detectors, let’s invest in the things we know will make us safer: counselors, health care, teaching positive behavior, and making sure we have services to reach out to disconnected youth and pull them back on track.” Therefore, violence is not the answer to any question or issue. The community and school system should take a stand and get the necessities that the schools need to have a safe environment for the students and faculty and staff. The school can invest in law enforcement. The law enforcement will be able to conduct a consistent search through a metal detector. The law enforcement will help the students to avoid bringing prohibited weapons to school as well as, there to protect the school.

In order to solve the problem of violence in schools, we must first find out who the problem is. Being that not every teenager is prone to participate in such violent acts as what happened at Columbine, there must be specific environment imposed on a particular biology to turn a teenager into an Eric Harris or a Dylan Klebold. These are not normal, healthy teenagers, and they don’t just become killers overnight. They become killers because they are already deeply disturbed individuals who can be sent over the edge by all sorts of innocuous influences. Violent teens often have specific characteristics that put them at high risk for committing these crimes. These high risked students may display some of the following traits. First,

Parents once wondered if their children are doing well in school, now must worry about whether or not their children are safe at school. In the cartoon (Source C), a mother and daughter are shopping for school supplies. One aisle includes the usual necessities, backpacks, notebooks, and markers, and the other aisle includes pepper spray, tasers, and bulletproof vests. The cartoon exaggerates that students need these supplies not only to learn and assist with school but also to protect themselves during school. Students should feel safe at school but instead feel the need to carry these type of

Numerous studies have been conducted to determine if teachers should be in possession of a firearm while on school properties and if this will decrease the number and magnitude of school shootings. Many scholars believe equipping teachers with firearms will be costly and end up unnecessarily endangering more students, but many scholars claim that a teacher should be the last line of defense against a school shooter. The question this paper hopes to answer is how can equipping teachers who teach grades K-12 help to prevent school shootings in the United States. This paper will attempt to answer that question by examining the perspectives of school administration and law enforcement, the impact on student’s safety and education, the

According to Senator Chris Murphy, a school shooting happens almost once a week. That’s about four school shootings a month. Would metal detectors in school improve this situation. I believe schools should not have metal detectors in school because metal detectors can be faulty, are extremely costly, and makes the students feel anxious and uneasy.

A method of preventing school shootings would be to acknowledge risk factors that the student is facing. For example, bullying is a risk factor for school shootings. In a research study done in 2001 of 37 school shootings, it was reported that 75% of the school shooters felt bullied, threatened, or injured by others in which most of the shooters in the report had experienced long-term bullying and harassment from their peers (Duplechain & Morris, 2014). In addition, the authors do state: “School personnel too often accept that children get teased and bullied every day, because teachers, parents, students, and other adults have grown up thinking that bullying is a normal part of school life. It has easily become an accepted part of today’s school culture” (Ibid, 2014). The authors believe that schools view bullying as something that students should get used to. This does show how bullying is an issue in schools. It is not solely to blame in regards to school shootings, but is a risk factor for them.

School shootings are terrifying and a big problem in today’s society. Schools have added lockdown drills, bullet proof glass and metal detectors. School should be a safe area for children to learn instead of fearing for their life. Instead of buying metal detectors and hiring more officers, there is a much easier solution in order to decrease and prevent school shootings. We have to be more alert about securing weapons at home and being aware of suspicious behavior at school in order to keep children and faculty safe.

To promote a healthy learning environment that potentially increases school funding, the first recommendation for schools is to remove all metal detectors on school campus. Having excessive forms of security measures can only be counter-productive to the results that schools want to see. The purpose of school institutions is to promote a learning environment, not an environment where it has become an evolved form of the prison system. Removing metal detectors in its entirety would allow schools to allocate the existing funds to support school administrators or counselors. The use of metal detectors are not only excessive, but perpetuates the image of the prison industrial

School shootings are terrifying to think about, but there are ways to help prevent the massacres from ever happening again. The first known school shooting was at the Texas Tower at the University of Texas in 1966 where Charles Whitman shot and killed 16 people while injuring 31 others. Who would have known since that date that we would have more then 200 deaths on school campuses? The most storied shooting in the 90’s was probably the Columbine massacre where on April 20, 1999 Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 32 students and faculty before turning the guns on themselves. The horror scene from the day will always be remembered in many lives and will continue over the years. There were many other horrible shootings over the years as

With millions of dollars being spent on measures to fight weapons and drugs in schools, little reason for optimism exists due to the track record of these methods and programs. Drugs and problems still continue to be a serious problem for our youth. For example, despite spending more than 20 million dollars on the installation of metal detectors at public schools in New York City, weapons continue to be a serious problem. In order for us to have safe schools, we need to bridge the gap between

There are many advantages for having teachers armed in the United States because locations which are armed and have high levels of security, are far less likely to have an attack carried out by a criminal or a killer. However evidence-statistics have shown that schools that

On September 11th 2001, at the Boston Logan International Airport, metal detectors did not stop weapons to get on the plane that led to the 9/11 tragedy. Metal detectors are supposed to protect people, but they do not do that very efficiently. Metal detectors do not detect all harmful weapons and they cause a lot of delays. They cannot 100% protect Stafford County Public Schools from danger to students and staff member.

Having metal detector would avoid shootings in school, but it could also bring consequences in time and budget. The installation of a metal detector is consider a “costly to purchase” because they require a large amount of steel and take time to be build. Also by having a metal detector in every building requires to have more security officers inspecting them. Students would arrive late to their courses, and also the lines to enter a building would “increase.” However, by having some minutes in checking students, also that lives of students would be safe.

It's is a well known fact that kids bring weapons into school. They might just want to show off their dad's new hunting knife or their mom's gun they keep in her purse. Everyone remembers the story of the kindergartener that brought a gun to school. A five-year-old boy from Albuquerque New Mexico was suspended from kindergarten after bringing a pellet gun to school. A teacher at Alameda Elementary School found the gun in the boy's bag after students mentioned he was showing it off. The pellet gun was not loaded. The boy was suspended for three days and school officials spoke with his parents about the incident. These kids might not want to hurt anyone; they most

Above all, it is important that our schools develop rules to govern the school properly and to have the halls monitored very well to avoid bully situations. Students should not be given the opportunity to involve themselves in these situations to have to deal with such a conflict. But in a situation such as bully violence or weaponry, the administrators should take caution in such things to keep the students and faculty safe. Enforcing a more strict policy on items will help the school avoid situations such as the Connecticut Massacre when a elementary school classroom got shot up due to not having a solid security system. So all schools should have precaution of what students are using and the limits of what is allowed. Instead of having metal utensils, replace those with plastic items to protect those in the environment. Schools should also have no bully zones throughout the school where students are carefully monitored and get to class on time and safely without any harm verbally or physically. This should be something teachers should take pride in to keep their work environment safe.