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    the world lost someone. During a high school football game, a player tackled another, Charles Youvella, but two days later, a tragedy occurred. Youvella sustained a brain injury, and died in the hospital, according to CBS News. Most people view high school football as a way of exercise, but it can cause danger. Throughout the history of high school football, several students have injured themselves or worse; high school football needs to provide better safety for their players. Charles Youvella

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    2010-2011 school year only 39% of schools in the US took steps towards school safety in the school and around the community. The worry of schools and its safety rates started when people from the community around schools that had problems with the school or personal problems started to harm the school. The school shootings that occurred like Columbine in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007 and the more relevant shooting Sandy Hook in 2012 all happened because of the failure to safe schools. In 1193 President

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    Safer Schools December 1, 1997, Michael Carneal, a freshman in West Paducah, Kentucky opened fire on his classmates, killing three and wounding five. One year later, on March 5, 1998, Mitchell Woodward shot and killed five classmates and wounded eleven in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Just one year after that, Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold committed the most heinous act of school violence in United States history in Littleton, Colorado. There, in Columbine High School, Harris and Kleibold killed twelve

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    moment that a person reaches their tipping point is very unpredictable. It is a challenge that law enforcement, counselors, and now educational leaders must prepare for each day. The present generation has known a world filled with terrorist attacks, school shootings, and increased family violence. These atrocities seem to be glorified in video games, movies, and sensationalized on network TV. Although, mass shootings are rare, the TV and conversation coverage of the event tend to be attractive to

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    To know how open and accessible our schools used to be when I was in school, and even once I started teaching. Through these years, school safety has become a hot topic. Safety is not only protecting schools from predators, but also from the poorly maintained aging school buildings. We need to find ways to make our schools accessible, and not feel like we are locked in a jail at the same time. The buildings, especially older schools, need be closely monitored for any type of hazard that may hurt

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    Purpose of WHS legislation To maintain the safety and health of people. And in the workplace Risk reduction through effective representation, consultation, joint action by employers and trade unions to play a role. To create a pine advises educational information. Together with the training more effective and appropriate enforcement measures. In addition, under the Labor Act WHS. To get the highest level of protection from the risks are appropriate Function of WHS Act, WHS regulation and WHS Code

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    in the School Safety Agent Student Guide. The New York City Police Department's school safety agent student guide address many key points and what it is to be a peace officer that explains the great responsibility of a peace officer 2. List and explain the history of the New York City Police Department school safety division based on the SSA student guide. The Student Guide explains the history of the New York City Police department School Safety Division, it explains how in 1969 school security

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    hear almost every day another school goes into lock down or some crazy lunatic takes a gun to school its every tragic to hear of students and teachers getting shot. You hear of parents so afraid to send their child to school or not knowing when they drop their son or daughter off it will be there last. What if we can take preventive measures to help prevent a troubled individual or make them think twice about taking a gun to school? There are many things that schools can do to secure the students

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    In this day and age where school administrators consider backpacks, lockers, and baggy pants to be potential dangers to students and faculty, what will be next? Perhaps pencils, pens, scissors, and glue will be added to the list of items to ban from schools. These, along with other hazardous educational necessities pose real threats to maintaining an orderly school and should be prohibited. Staplers for instance, are nothing but injuries and carnage waiting to happen. A projectile staple,

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    hallways of your school. This sends the whole school into terror and panic mode. The threat of death is too real. The shooter comes raging into your barricaded classroom. Within seconds they begin shooting everyone and yourself. With a blink of an eye you and everyone in the classroom are dead. What could have stopped this person from shooting? Who could have stopped this person form shooting? What actions can be made from this event? One serious issue that threatens Columbia High School and other neighboring

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