As teachers, parents, and students prepare and begin this new school year, hopefully fears of school violence such as the bullying, slapping, punching, weapon use, and rape will not be their major concern. To top it all, what is School Violence? As defined in the Oxford Dictionary, School Violence is a subset of students or teachers violence, physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing, the act or an instance of violent action or behavior at school, abuse or injury to meaning, content, or intent, vehemence of feeling or expression. What is sad is that school violence needs to be a concern at all. The fact is; violence of one sort or another is part of many schools today. Fortunately, this usually …show more content…
To start with, seeing in most schools today, there are many students that have difficulties with their aptitude to learn and to study because it is affected by the violence occurring at school. Students lose their interest in studying due to the physical and emotional abusing that both teachers and students use at school, making it more complicated for them to attend classes or even trying to understand the courses that they are involved with in their studies. Looking at most schools here in Tonga, some of the students that has less capabilities in studying and doing school works; some of the teachers pick on them, thus that is emotional abusing. It makes those students feel more insecure about themselves drawing to the point making it harder for them trying to learn. Seeing that the reason for them to come to school is to learn but turns out that the teachers are the first ones that point out their disabilities therefore allowing most of the other students to do the same. Not only that we take this emotional abusing as violence, but also the physical abusing at schools, for some teachers that abuse their students does not only affect the students being abused but can also affect other students in the school. Students lose interest in attending the class of those teachers are in, leaving them struggling throughout the
Violence at school is defined as physical or verbal attacks on a person while on school grounds or on school property ("School Violence essays", 2017), or any activity that is able to create a disturbance in an educational system (Blanco, 2017). In today's societies, School violence is spreading dramatically, which has caused many problems among students, families and faculty of schools.
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
On April 20th, 1999, two shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, entered Columbine High School and murdered thirteen people and wounded more than twenty others. In doing so the two teenagers not only hurt many families and left a community scarred forever, but they also changed the landscape of American politics, national attitudes towards gun control, and began a violent phenomenon, now known as school shootings, that would haunt America for years to come. Since that fateful day in 1999, school shootings have become common place in America. From 2013 to January of 2018, it is estimated that around “300 school shootings” have taken place in the United States (Scott par.1). This data does not include the shooting at Parkland High School, which took place on February 24th, 2018, or the shooting at Santa Fe High
The gun that killed 17 kids at lest. There are protests planned, and nationwide school walkouts many more to come unless you do something. Seventeen deaths can make such a difference in school nationwide. Congress is telling people we couldn’t of done anything better to be prepared for this incident. Emma Gonzales a former student of Stoneman Douglas High School. “ Said, no law can prevent gun violence”. Also in the video she had with CNN she asked Dana Loesch “do you believe it should be harder to obtain semi-automatic weapons”. The whole time Dana was going around, and around she never answered Emma Gonzalez question. Until Sheriff Scott Israel, stood up said what Dana couldn’t say. He answered her question. “That Teens/Adults should be on
Are you tired of having those dreadful and terrible flashbacks of your high school’s days of witnessing some sort of school violence or even being the victim from the violence? American schools all over today are becoming more of a fearful and miserable destination for children to attend and it is even becoming more of a destine nightmare for every teacher and parent as well due to an alarming rate of violent actions of multiple types of crimes being committed by students and consistently having chaotic events. Schools are meant for children to have the feeling of being safe, enjoyment, and allow them to receive an outstanding education that will lead them into the appropriate path for college and then soon lead those students to a brighter
Despite our whereabouts everyone main concern is gun violence; there is always an argument concerning guns. Should be mandated or not? Is it life or death situation or plain old homicide? With that question being asked by Americans nationwide, should students be allowed to carry guns or campus? Or should we fear that they all will use it for all the wrong reasons intended?
¨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
At the end of this study, I wish to answer the following questions: How safe do children feel at school? How do parents rate their school as it relates to safety? Does school violence have a direct impact on student achievement? Finally, I will discuss recommendations for improving current school emergency/safety plans as well as strategic models of encouraging learning versus violence in our
What are the psychological effects on adolescents that have been exposed to gun violence on school grounds? Introduction In this project I will be talking about the psychological effects on adolescents that have been exposed to gun violence on school grounds. I will be defining key words before moving on to talk about the possible effects of being exposed to gun violence. In the main part of my project I will be discussing three case studies on different school shootings and exploring the psychological effects.
No doubt that there has been many alarming issues since the last century especially when it comes to homicide rate due to gun violence. Research done has proven and illustrated to audience on how adolescents are more likely involved with delinquency relating to gun violence. Gun violence are proon to cause mental health and child development issues, high numbers of homicide yearly, social, psychological, and political concerns. Nevertheless, taking little to no action will only rise bigger issue concerning adolescents and the way they grow up in the community. That why some researchers in articles talk about ways and recommendations on how to prevent gun violence to decrease the number of homicide and delinquency seen in adolescents. I believe gun violence is at its highest stake in adolescents and that government should be
A lot of people believe that the best alternative would be to have a hired security guard or law enforcement guarding the school at all times. This idea is better because it allows the teachers to be at peace by not having to worry about if they would be ending a life. "If I'm going to have a gun on the premises I'd rather have a resource officer who has been trained," Martin said. "If I'm going to defend myself in the community, I'm not firing around potentially 1,000 kids." By hiring security the school would be protected from any intruders. Security would be trained to shoot with precision at any gunman. The security could also help protect against violence within the school. If a fight breaks out, a security guard would be able to stop
The United States is facing an epidemic of seriously violent crimes in middle schools and high schools across the country. At least fifty people have died due to a series of high school shootings. These shooting rampages have occurred across the United States in 13 cities ranging from Pennsylvania to southern Mississippi and to western California. Just when the murder rampages seem to be subsiding, another tragedy occurs. Preventive measures have been taken by the government and school systems. For instance, in 1994, Congress passed the Drug-Free Schools and Community Act, which provides for support of drug and violence prevention programs. However, these programs have not been effective in taming the ferocious dispositions of the
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.
Topic: School Violence General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform what needs to be done to stop school violence. Central Idea: To inform the effects, causes, and solutions of school violence. INTRODUCTION: Since the April 20, 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado I have been looking deeper into the issue of school violence. The number of extremely violent crimes committed by students has been increasing in the last few years.