The Causes Of Violence In School

Violence in society is increasing dramatically and not only is it out in the streets, but it’s in the school systems as well. However, school violence has been becoming more and more of a problem all over the nation in the past several years. School violence needs to stop because no one should be afraid to go to school without feeling like it’ll be their last day.

A sudden increase of youth violence in public schools in early 1990 has caused many to raise concerns about violent behaviors in schools. In the past, the most common form of violence that took place in schools was bullying, physical fights, or

Today many of our U.S public schools and campuses face the same problem, the violence on their school grounds. There is wide variety of contributors to this problem schools are facing and bullying is the main issue. School violence consists of the following types of bullying behavior physical, verbal, and cyber. A few factors that I believe to be the main contribute to violence in schools.

¨School violence refers to criminal acts committed at educational institutions such as elementary, middle, and high schools as well as colleges and universities” (¨School¨ 1). A recent school violence happened on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, at Sandy Hook Elementary School. On that day, “twenty-year-old Adam Lanza Adam was armed with a variety of weapons, including two handguns and an assault rifle (“Guns” 17). With those firearms, he killed his mother, six adult staff members, and twenty first-graders (17). When school violences such as Sandy

Although there may not be a foolproof way to end all school violence, there are ways to dramatically reduce such horrific. Prevention techniques evolve around safety features, education, and training. Safe entryway into and within schools is a beginning step to prevent crime. Schools can install security systems that force anyone

For some schools, violence may be a minor issue; for others, it may be a daily concern. The threat of violence can keep students away from school, prevent them from going to after-school

An outburst of school violence has taken over the nation throughout the past several years. Incidents of school violence have quickly intensified since the Columbine tragedy, thus prompting communities to take additional safety precautions with their youth education system. There are many inquiries on what type of violence is most common, often narrowing down on gender, ethnicity, and environment. Violence itself can be defined as a deliberate act, serving no legitimate purpose, which has the possibility of reasonably harming another person. Violent behavior is often associated with the cultural environment and class status of an individual. The ideology that can be obtained from this perspective would be that lower class, uneducated

School violence situations have increased throughout the years. These events are tragic and can strike at any time. The issues that causes the horrific events are things such as mental health, political events, and also educational issues. These types of issues lead to many disastrous events such as school shootings. Over the years there has been over one hundred school shootings dating back to the year of 1913 which was the Breman school shooting that took place in Germany. As the years have progressively gone by in the United States there has been a high increase in the number of school shooting that have happen on U.S territory. To help stop these type of events from occurring schools across the nation have taken matters and have added

Every day students across the country wake up and go to school seeking an education. They learn basic skills and knowledge from classes such as English, math, biology, physics, photography and so many other classes that prepare students for adulthood. However, what is most alarming is that students have to cope with violence that is now occurring in schools. In the past, school violence involved bullying and mistreatment, but in recent decades weapons are now a part of the violence students encounter. Violence is a way for youth to gain authority over their peers. Additionally, violence in schools has promoted a national debate on gun control, bullying and plagued the overall learning experience in school environments. Not only do people need

A lot of our students show great interest in watching T.V programs, or movies. Most of these movies have many violence senses. With repeated watching to this senses violence become a normal thing for the kid. As result we see our students trying to do the same in the classroom, when there is a small conflict between them. Instead of talking to each other students briefer to use violence. Also at home to conflict between brothers turns to be arena. All of this, because this is what they use to see at T.V and movies.

One of the primary functions of schools is to provide a safe environment conductive to learning. Although cases of school violence have been steadily decreasing over the past three decades, the safety of the school environment is still an issue. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2011, 33% of students in grades 9 through 12 reported that they had been in a physical fight in the previous 12 months, and 12% reported that they had fought on school property. 17% of high school students reported that they had carried a weapon anywhere on at least one day during the previous 30 days, while 5% admitted carrying a weapon on school property. For students aged 12-18, the rates of violent victimization in 2011 were higher at school than away from school. Students are not the only ones to face the problem of physical violence at school. During the 2007-2008 school year 7% of teachers were threatened with injury by a student from their school.

Firstly, violence affected my life numerous times. All I remember from last year was seeing uncontrolled fights all over my school. It all seemed that savagery was the only answer to any problem. It is sickening remembering all the screaming students, encouraging them to continue while they recorded the fight with their phones, eager to post it on social media. It happened almost every day, and I feared it would turn worse than it already was. My thoughts would spiral into: “What if someone feels too attacked, and brings a gun to the fight?” “What if the teachers accidentally hurt the students? What if they did it purposely?” “Why isn't anyone breaking up the fight? They’re just watching and enjoying it!” It all insanely encouraged students to do the same exact thing tomorrow, and the day after that,

Educators and staff need to be aware of the early warning signs of harassment and bullying. Once recognized, they need to be quick to intervene when they see this occurring. However, educators must remember that signs of violence are not always signs from one person. Bullying and hate crimes are also prevalent in schools and need to be recognize. The company, Teaching Tolerance, has this advice for educators: “listen, watch, and learn.” The site’s file on “Responding to Hate in School” says that attention needs to be paid to what is being heard in the halls. In “The Final Report and Findings of The Safe School Initiative,” researchers found that in many cases of school violence, other people knew about the attack before it actually happened. Teachers must be aware of this and listen for any and all rumors. A teacher also needs to listen for slurs or common derogatory phrases. They must be alert everywhere in the school, not just their own classroom, and constantly search for signs of marginalized students, entitlement, and violent behaviors. They even must be aware of other educator’s attitudes and behaviors towards students as well as their own perceptions. Teaching Tolerance implores educators to “be the person who knows what’s really going on at your school” and to take an active part in ending school violence (Willoughby, p. 5-6).

Violence is a distraction and even though it can not be eliminated completely, we need to see to it that it we remove as much of it as we can from our schools. All students deserve the right to a safe school and to have an equal chance to be successful in life. The road to being successful starts in the classroom.

  Conflict and differences of opinion exist in every healthy organization. Americans need to try to take control of today's youth and the violence that is and has been developing in this country for many years.  Although violence will never be extinct, there are many different ways to reduce violence.  Each school and student population has different ways of dealing with and helping to curb the need for violence in schools.