The Importance Of Mass Violence In Schools

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Executive summary Schools are under scrutiny and pressure to provide safe spaces for children to develop and learn. While this should include all aspects of a child’s well being, national coverage of school shootings has tipped the scales towards preventing mass violence in schools, often times sacrificing the indoor environmental quality of the classroom space. Kids face a real threat of bullying, asthma, absenteeism, obesity, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when they head to school each day rather than the infinitesimal chance that they would be involved in an event of mass school violence, like a school shooting. This project would reference existing strategies, case studies and ideas from a variety of sources and practitioners and synergize them to create a reference tool that addresses safety, well-being, and high indoor environmental qualities together rather than as isolated goals. This guideline will serve as a decision making tool for administrators, architects, teachers, police and policy makers in order to make informed decisions about student health and safety that considers the everyday exposures as well as the rare occurrences of mass violence. The initial framework for this guideline was created as part of a Masters Synthesis project and will be redeveloped for wider integration and use. Objectives and significance School administrators and teachers today have to balance the priorities of the students in their classrooms. Schools are concerned with student performance in order to meet national guidelines and the well being of students to allow for the appropriate development during their childhood years. Added into this balance is the concern of mass school violence. Because recent school sh... ... middle of paper ... ...pick and choose what may or may not apply to their facilities and operations. This guideline also offers the possibility of looking forward and into districts’ operational guidelines to find where certain strategies can be implemented as part of their standards. The priority of this project is help decision makers in school systems make more informed decisions regarding health and safety by pushing them to consider the whole child on both an everyday and worst case scenario scale. The large body of knowledge that will be available for use by school systems around the nation mitigates the possible obstacles faced by the research team. By ensuring students have a healthy, high performing school classroom each day, their school experience will be more positive in their health, behavior, and well being without creating a sense of fear around active violence prevention.

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