Thresholds Of Violence: The Prevention Of School Violence

I have been researching this topic for about a week now and during my research I found out that school shootings only make up a small percentage of youth violence on campus or school property. But every shooting is a traumatic event not only for the students and teachers but for the community as well.

School violence, is an issue that is hard to deal with. There are things that may be done to decrease it but it does not seem like it will ever go away. Parents send their children to school to learn, to have fun, to pass notes, and to meet new people, not to be shot at and never have the chance to come home ever again. They should not have to think or be afraid of sending their child to school and never seeing them. Last year one of the worst school shootings took place at Columbine High School. Not only did it effect the famlies of the victims and of the killers, pretty much the whole nation was involved and many people were brought in to figure out what had happened, and why it happened. This incident brought our nation together, and

Jude P. Dougherty. School Shootings. Laura K. Egendorf, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2002.

How many more innocent children need to die before we wake up and prepare our teachers to fight back? The amount of school violence is on the rise as demonstrated in the five school shootings which all occurred within one week in 2008. Clearly, school violence levels will not decline if the current laws are left unchanged. The only solution is self-responsibility: arm school officials and give them a fighting chance. No gunman is going to target a school that can defend itself and fight back.

School shootings vary in every situation, but numerous studies have narrowed down the top causes and influences. Duplechain writes that one of the biggest causes is bullying or abuse in the shooter’s life.

There is a grave national crisis occurring all across the nation. Children everywhere are committing acts of hostility in their schools. Schools are no longer a safe haven for children but are now considered war zones where victims are abundant and violence is the enemy. Fifty-seven percent of public elementary and secondary school principals reported that one or more incidents of crime or violence occurred in their schools and were reported to law enforcement officials. Ten percent of all public schools experienced one or more serious violent crimes. Some 6,093 students were expelled during the 1996-1997 academic school year for bringing firearms or explosives to school.

Today there have been several devastating acts of school shootings that traumatizes the minds of staff and student . One of the examples of an bullied victim retaliation is of the kids from the Columbine shooting, where two kids who were bullied went on a murderous shooting rampage killing the lives of many at their schools and taking their own. Things like the Columbine shooting makes students afraid and scared to go to school. Schools today need to become a safe environment for students not a place of fear. There shouldn’t be one child in the United States to be afraid to go to school. Today Teachers, Principles, need to develop a plan to minimize the bullying and let students know they are safe and should not be in any type of fear when they cross through the doors of the school

There is a growing problem with teenage violence today in school. The problem is teenagers are getting more and more violent. Many of them resort to violence as a way to deal with anger and stress. Most of teenage violence starts with the so called thugs who think they rule the school. Not just the thugs but anybody in general who thinks they can beat up on people and act all tough and push everyone around. Another source of this violence is the outcasts or nerds that the bullies pick on because they’re different, but the worst type of violence is racism, like Nazis who hate people because of there race, religion, or there sexual preference. This violence may be coming from

School violence has turned out to be widespread, its impact has greatly affected students, municipal officials, and law enforcement agencies across the region. This particular offense goes unreported and unnoticed in most schools, however, it is the cause of school shootings. Because bullying is something that take place on the school bus, and on school grounds it must be of importance. School bulling attributes to three-quarters of the crime that is committed on innocent bystanders. This issue is increasing in schools across the nation, therefore you have been tasked to be a part of the solution and not the problem. Each and every student and potential student is threatened by falling victim to this crime unless something is done about it. We seek to find a permanent solution to a consistent problem.

School violence among young people in society is increasing dramatically. Beginning in 1989, there had been an increase in school violence, ranging from verbal harassment, threats of harm, and violent crime (Aspa1). Overall national violent crime rates dropped after 1993 and continued at lower levels into the twenty-first century. Public concern about school violence rose significantly as school shootings dominated the media’s attention and many of them left scars in our nation (Juvonen1). Schools are actually taking a variety of measures to improve the safety of schools (Juvonen1). My purpose for writing this paper is because school violence happens a lot in the United States. School violence occurs in children who have mental, social, and family

After shootings at Jonesboro, Ark, Paducah, Ky, Springfield, Ore, Pearl, Miss, and Littleton, Co, serious questions arise such as has school violence risen, and, if so, what can we do to fix it. The truth is, school violence is on a rise, and it can be attributed to factors such as disinterest in learning, the total preservation of the civil rights of the students at all costs, and the lack of power the teachers and administrators have to punish misbehavior. Solutions such as forcing school uniforms, voluntary learning, and peer mediation take a long time to implement and an even longer time to see visible results, but they are necessary to ensure our future in America as

Research Problem/Issue: Community violence in schools/ Teachers’ challenges, strategies and support needs. Violence in urban communities is a major problem in most urban schools, and has become a major health problem to students and teachers. Teachers who work in high crime environments are prone to assult exposure, shootings, conflicts involving gangs and drugs. Students attending such schools are faced with behaviors such as fightings, shooting, rape, bullying and weapons brought on school properties. High risk areas terrorize familles, students and teachers. In fact, community violence not only affect student’s academic ability but also their socioemotional development (Maring & Koblinsky, 2013)..

The first reason school violence should be stopped, is for the school to become a safer environment for the child. Some schools are already giving background checks to incoming visitors that enter the school building. All schools need to get this program as soon as they can. This program sees if the visitor is a registered sex offender, a felony, and and major crimes on their record. The visitor would be denied entry and not allowed into the building. This safety precaution would make the United States schools an extremely better environment for the future students of the upcoming generation.

October 4, 2016, the Express Web Desk reported that a student named Akash murdered his girlfriend by stabbing her 29 times in the abdominal area after she told him that she was pregnant and the baby was not his (1). This resulted in the death of the girlfriend and her baby causing Akash to be charged with seventeen years in prison. Violence in schools has been a problem for as long as education has gone public, and many have been torn between whether violence is inevitable or if violence is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. Violence in schools has been addressed many times, but it looks as though schools have done nothing to help solve the problem. In fact, it seems like violence in schools is at an all-time high rather than being decreased over the years. The conflict ensues whether or not violence in schools is something that will occur no matter what or whether violence is something that can stop if schools address the correct situation and focus on the main causes of violence in the educational system. Many people have been debating over whether violence has become a concern in the educational system, or if violence in schools has been becoming an increasingly common problem in all school systems around the world due to an increase in gun and drug use leading to gun and drug violence, an increase in the amount of relationship violence and gender differences causing violence, the amount of student victimization that has lead to school

  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.