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    Essay about Can We Stop School Violence?

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    Violence in American schools is escalating faster than a speeding bullet. Society demands that schools be safe for our children, yet recent events indicate we need to escalate our efforts to prevent violence in schools at the same time address violence in the larger community. Crises involving sudden violence in schools are traumatic in large measure because they are unexpected. The shrapnel from bullets fired on school grounds have a way of touching the life's of many. In the wake of such a crisis

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    School Violence Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation School Violence Introduction School violence has been on the rise in America with efforts created every day to end it (Library, 2017). More youths enrolled today continue being threat to their fellow students thus making some of them fear joining school. This easy evaluates the prevalence of violence in school with the aim of finding lasting solutions to it. Reasons Lack of parental guidance Most of the parents today have less

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    happening during middle and high school. Countless student deaths due to suicide, OD/drug use, drunk driving, homicide, illness, accidents... Plenty of bomb threats throughout as well as students bringing firearms on campus. These twin sisters that lived in my neighborhood, went to the same middle school, and rode the same bus as me were killed in a drive-by. There was plenty of gang-related violence. I also remember one, if not two female teachers at that school having had numerous sexual encounters

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    going around about whether or not schools should allow students to role play games with simulated violence. I agree that they should not allow it. One reason for this is because it teaches kids that violence is allowed, even though it isn’t; and at most schools like this one, there is never allowed to be any sort of weapon. And nobody can infringe on this law. Like if it’s halloween, and some kid is a pirate and brings a sword. It will be confiscated. School should be a happy place where everyone

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    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? This is a very sensitive issue to bring up with all the mass shootings that have occurred nation wide. Communities and schools are in a state of panic. Do

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    The Inevitability of School Violence: No Need for School Reform “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” I have often heard. We know people kill people. The real issue now is whether or not people can change people. Some are of the opinion that we are capable of doing so; by implementing new reforms and tightening school security, people are, in effect, saying they have the solutions to the problems. The violence of recent school shootings has wrought anxiety and fear in parents, teachers

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    School violence has increased dramatically over the years and it is an important topic that should be discussed with teachers, peers, and parents. I believe that schools do a decent job addressing this topic to their students, but they could still do better to help decrease this issue. Even though I feel relatively safe within my school, there are a few concerns that arise with the climate of safety at my school. The outdoor campus of my school decreases its safety because people can easily enter

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    it's not drugs and alcohol at school were worried about anymore, It's guns. Gun violence and school shootings have been all over the news in 2018. The question everyone keeps asking themselves, is why? A few things that play a factor in most of these school shootings are the shooters home and school life, their easy access to the weapon, and their overall wellbeing as a whole. One key factor in almost all of these school shootings are these students home and school lives. At home they normally don’t

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    nor Safety.” Thus, in regards to the debate of the school uniform policy, could it be said, to conform to the masses to secure a little safety; liberty is being forsaken? Uniforms have been around for centuries; yet, only more recently introduced into American public schools in 1979, as a way to combat differences in social status among students. Today, school uniform policies are being looked at as a way to combat violence in the American school systems. Collin’s English Dictionary online defines

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    been yet another school shooting? B. Well According to Everytownresearch.org Since 2013, there have been at least 178 school shootings in the United States. Granted that description includes anytime a fire arm has discharged on school property. That number averages out to about one shooting a week. C. 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

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