Students attend school five to six days every week, 36 weeks per year, and School Safety is essential. “School Safety” is the safety of school settings, such as the incidence of harassment, bullying, violence, and substance use. There are many public policies that relate to school safety. Public policies are the principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based. Security is also important in schools. Security is the state of being free from danger or threat. These terms are essential to know while trying to improve our schools.
What is Project Citizen? For many years, Edgewood and other schools around the country have given their seventh graders a project to help improve their community or school. The seventh graders research a problem that their community or school is facing, then find solutions to that problem. The community or school then executes the solution to solve the problem.
Edgewood has slowly been improving itself through Project Citizen. In the past years, we have identified problems such as unsafe intersections and bathroom hygiene. In order for Project Citizen to be successful, the students must research and analyze their problem to find the solution. This years Project Citizen is to improve our school safety.
Edgewood is a great school. It has good teachers, technology, and education system. In order to improve safety, there are some basic things to know about our school. Edgewood has 21 fire alarms and 24 fire extinguishers that are readily available. There are 23 total exits, 3 on the second floor and 20 on the first floor. There are 53 total classrooms and 49 total teachers. There are 630 total students, 202 in 8th grade, 224 in 7th grade, and 204 in 6th grade. It is essential for schools to provide a...
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...r sent home or back to class. Punishments for bullying range from detention to expulsion.
Edgewoods internet policy is relatively simple. Inappropriate websites are blocked by the administrator so that no student can access them. Teachers also monitor internet usage and search history.
The policy at Edgewood for Cyberbullying is more complex. First a teacher is made aware of the situation. They next confront the bully and punish them accordingly, as well as sending them to the principal. They then prevent any further access to the cyberbullying method.
All of these situations are necessary information to know when inside of Edgewood. If a student, staff member, or visitor does not know these procedures then they are in serious risk of getting injured during one of these events, especially if it is not a drill. This is one of many problems that are present in schools.
Unlike most of the country, I knew about Columbine High School on April 19, 1999. I knew that the Columbine Rebels had a good football team, I remembered how they beat Cherry Creek for the 1999 football championship. I knew what Columbine's building was like from when I was inside it in January for a debate tournament. I had friends that went to CHS. We had gone on a trip to Hawaii together to learn about biology. The rest of the country found out about Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. They didn't hear about their football team, the debate tournament they hosted, or my friends, though; they heard about two angry students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, that went on a killing rampage killing 12 other students, a teacher, and themselves. The nation, the media, the killers, my friends, and me all have their own view of what happened that day. Many people tried to understand how something so terrible could happen, while the killers thought that the killings were a wonderful thing, and still other students were trying to comprehend that this tragedy had actually happened so close to home.
Emergency services can visit a school to provide talks to pupils which can be incorporated within the curriculum. At our school we have a local community officer based on the premises and is they should a safeguard issue arise, as well as delivering information talks relating to their role and responsibilities.
In light of recent acts of violence in the nation’s schools, school safety and security have become a hot topic. However, the issue of school safety goes beyond student violence. It includes property damage, theft, and anything else that concerns the overall well being of schools. While it is important to create a safe environment in schools it is also necessary to make sure students feel comfortable in this atmosphere. The security can not be so overbearing that it becomes a negative tactic that gets in the way of the students main objective, learning. Barely noticeable cameras, ID cards, and security guards without uniforms can help generate this safe, but comfortable learning environment. On the other hand metal detectors and mini police forces may be a little too reminiscent of George Orwell’s novel, 1984, or even modern prisons. School security should not be overbearing or obtrusive where it gets in the way of a comfortable environment that is conducive to learning in the nation’s schools.
Its hard to believe that there isn’t enough money out there to increase school safety, but there is enough money that the government is able to cut down on taxes. Tax payers pay for campaigns, but why doesn’t our taxes go off to help make schools safer for our children? Students should not be afraid to attend school. School should be a safe environment where teenagers can be teenagers and not feel intimidated. CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, is a school-based survey designed to produce a sample of risk behaviors of students ages 9-12.
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Outside of teaching, they also follow safety procedures like fire drills, tornado drills, and lock down. Fire drills happen when there is a fire present in the school building. A tornado drill happens when there is a tornado heading near. Lock downs happen in case of dangerous situations like school shootings or other criminal activities. These safety drill practices happen at least once or twice a year. Sometimes teachers choose to stay after school to finish their daily duties before they head home. Middle school teachers and staff are supervised by assistant principals and a principle, who is the main boss that supervises all school
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.
Project BUILD, newly known as BUILD Violence Intervention Curriculum (Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development) is known as a violence prevention curriculum that is "designed to help youth in detention overcome problems" that emerge for their surroundings. Several obstacles that the youths may face includes gangs, crime, and drugs. The main goal of Project BUILD is to intervene with the youths who have come across the juvenile justice system to reduce recidivism and diminish the likelihood of becoming an adult offender.
"The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of
Schools have always been one of the safest places in a child’s life, but are we
The bullying and harassment that occurs between these students should not only be up to the parents to deal with, but also up to the school districts. Afterall, parents expect that the students are partially under the school’s protection and responsibility. When the bullying continues outside of school, and personal information is exposed for others to see on social media, it is still up to the district to set the consequences for its students. Because most cases of cyberbullying start at schools, it is nearly impossible for students to avoid the bullies’ torment throughout the day. As for the consequences, a school district’s Code of Conduct must also consider the former record of these bullies and anyone else who is involved. The severity of each student’s punishment shall be partially determined by his or her history of previous misbehavior or faulty actions. In a digital pile on for example, a student may only post a small comment in agreement with a previous post but will still receive the minimal of a written referral and a phone call home, letting the parents know why such measures had to be taken. If the reported bully continues to bother the victim, whether it is in person or through social media services, the consequences will be more harsh for each known violation until expulsion is the only answer. The current Code of Conduct does
Thousands of people are affected by the lack of school safety in schools across the nation. Students everywhere are attending schools that are more dangerous than expected. This is a growing concern everywhere, and schools need to improve, or else they are prone to being unsafe. Whether it is building, drill, concussion, social, or technology safety, schools need to improve to lower the risk of an incident.
The issue of school safety has become a controversial topic in the United States, due to tragic acts of violence occurring on a daily basis. American citizens should never have to cope with the negative impact of school violence, no matter how often they hear about the tragedies (Jones, "Parents" 1). In the past, schools were viewed as a safe place for children to get an education. Recently, the concern over violence in schools has taken a toll on many parents, school administrators, and legislatures (Eckland 1). Studies have shown that there are over 3 million acts of violence in American public schools each year. Not all occurrences are serious and deadly, but they occur on a daily basis throughout our country (Jones, “School” 6). This has caused many parents to worry about the well-being of their children while they are in class. This has also led to an increase in questions and concerns by parents and guardians. Many people have asked, “What are you doing about safety and security on my child’s campus” (Schimke 2). School violence is the cause of elevated worry and fear for their children, and school districts should enforce better security.
For their safety, the students must know their evacuation procedures or plans as well as the emergency exit locations. They get to learn about how to respond in case there is s fire, the emergency exit locations, and stairways, fire escapes, window exits, as well as where and how to use the fire alarms and fire extinguishers wherever
We used a lot of special terms while researching, and I will define them for you here: Safety is the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. Its synonyms are welfare, protection, and security. Security is the state of being free from danger or threat. Its synonyms are safety, freedom from danger, security. Public policy is the principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based (Rules and laws in our society). Cognitive means of or relating to cognition. Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught. Reflection is serious thought or consideration. School safety means the safety of school settings, such as the incidence of harassment, bullying, violence, and substance use, as supported by relevant rese...