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    School Safety In Iowa

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    Since 1990 when the first school shooting happened, there have been many concerns over school safety. People like knowing that if their kid goes to school they will 1. Further their chances of having a future, and 2. Come back home. Sometimes however that doesn’t happen. There have been many accusations pointed toward the NRA but they’re not all to blame. Yes, these people shouldn’t have gotten a gun so easily but does that really matter? Wouldn’t that have just postponed the shooting by a few months

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    The safety of students and staff is a primary concern in stressful and dangerous situations. The main goal of drills in all schools is to prepare and improve on ways to keep our students and staff safe. Lockdown drills are a rising concern in the United States with school shootings becoming as regular as one school shooting per week ( ). Violence in schools is a major issue, “According to a 2012 report from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 74 percent

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    Gun Safety In Schools

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    In 2015, a school shooting in Franklin, North Carolina occurred. At South Macon Elementary School, two suspects, Adam Conley and Kathryn Jeter, had told the sheriff and other investigators, “it was God’s will to shoot children and teachers”. Unfortunately, the sheriff had found the stray cat that all the students loved, dead from a gunshot wound. One of the suspects had told the sheriff, “the cat was defective”. Thankfully, no other injuries were sustained during the shooting. Attacks like this happen

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    assessment the Jack Hunt School Science Laboratory, the Peterborough Power Station and the Jack Hunt School Kitchens will be the different scientific environments observed. The hazards in each environment, the safety legislation that is put in place to prevent danger as well as other safety measures that are taken by those who work in these environments will be explained. Jack Hunt School Science Laboratory The Importance of Personal Protective Equipment In a school science laboratory there

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    life, and teaching children important safety practices fall upon the adults in children's life, whether that be parents, relatives, and teachers. Throughout their life children are going to be offered drugs, cross busy streets, and be bullied by other kids. Schools have put safety and educational classes in place to mitigate the risks of these issues of drugs and street traffic, yet teaching kids about gun safety seems to be lacking in most public school settings. It does not matter whether someone

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    In all schools, discipline and safety is a multifaced affair that not only involves the schools but stretches to the confines of families, local authorities, federal and to a greater extent personality. This makes analysis and in-depth understanding of school violence through a multidisciplinary perspective. For instance, it is crucial to view the past and recent school violence from racial, religious, economic and behavorial angles. Moreover, school violence must consider loopholes within the legal

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    Violence and Education: School Safety The most recent shooting at the elementary school located in Newtown, Connecticut have shifted our focus on the question of whether or not we are doing enough to protect our students in our schools across the nation. Every morning, parents send their children to school every morning trusting that they will be returning home the same day, but as we all know that isnt always the case for some. The tragedies that have taken place show that we need to pay more

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    Amanda Lane served as the high school and middle school principal for many years. This school year, CCS has hired one more principal, and Amanda decided to lead the middle school only. As the school grew rapidly in the last two years, the two main objectives Mrs. Lane would like to reevaluate this academic year are school safety and community relations. School Safety The developed guidelines and procedures for dealing with existing and potential incidents at CCS are defined in their Emergency Plan

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    The Wayne County School Board has the power, authority and duty to be the custodians of real and personal school property and to manage, control and care for same, both during the school term and during vacation. The school plant serves as a vehicle in the implementation of the total educational program, providing the necessary facilities for delivering planned instructional programs and services within a safe, comfortable, physical environment. Each school is expected to be clean, safe and in

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    Introduction Violence in schools has become a growing epidemic. Hearing of a school shooting where students are gunned down for no apparent reason is a reminder of the seemly increasing national problem of school violence. Dewey Cornell (2010) a clinical psychologist and education professor at the University of Virginia suggest that school shooting in “Columbine High School in Colorado and Virginia Tech has reinforced a perception that schools can be dangerous places” (p.1). Yet, there has been

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