A major issue in schools is schools are violence. Our students have become more and more violent each and every year. If we don’t start to help our students resolve their issues amongst each other the fighting will never end. Some people done really realize what school violence is exactly. “The true term for school violence refers to criminal acts committed at educational institutions such as elementary, middle, and high schools as well as colleges and universities.” (Opposing Viewpoints) Many factors can play into as why these students always feel the need to be violent. Their home lives, bullying, videogames, and much more could affect their thinking. Students have been bringing knives to school just because they think its “cool”. They are putting everyone’s lives at danger.
“In the more recent years students have been bringing not only knives but guns, explosives, and many other things to school and targeting teachers, principals, or other students, they even will turn the weapon on themselves and committing suicide in front of their classmates and friends.” (Opposing Viewpoint) Some schools have even have to have their school days cut short, or even shut down the entire school. Teachers do not know what to do with the students anymore because their actions have become so excessive, they are unmanageable. A big influence in school violence is the other students around. Other students encourage the flightiest and the bullies to fight another to solve their problems. Students think it’s funny to watch the fights happen. They even videotape them. The statistics show that school violence has increased greatly.
“According to the national center for education statistics (NCES), the agency that tracks school violence stated that fr...
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...p the violence thought out our school. “A major one would be monitoring our student’s activities on their cell phones, laptops, and tablets. Monitoring student’s social media helps schools identify signs of trouble” (Opposing Viewpoint). Students rely on their electronic devices to get through their days. If we could just help the students understand the school violence is not okay and doesn’t get you anywhere good in life.
Overall school violence is one the most concerning problem we face currently. Steps have been taken to decrease school violence, but there is much more than can be done. Everyone just needs to work together to help reduce the number or violent crimes our students are committing every day. If we don’t then we’re only adding to the crime by not intervening and allowing it to happen. The violence needs to stop, and it’s not going to stop on its own.
Schools have become less safe. People blame either bad parenting or video games. Bullying is another factor as to why students end up shooting at schools and then ending their own life. It is so tragic and must be stopped.
In conclusion, School Violence is a widespread issue that must be addressed. School shootings and bullying are some of the biggest issues in today’s school system. Many times the seed of the issue begins with bullying and ends with consequences like suicide and school shootings. They affect people as early as elementary school all the way to the college level, some even ending with death. Only together can we stop school violence if we take a stand and change the world.
Yet, as a profession (and a society) maybe a little shock treatment now and then is good for us, especially if we ourselves work in relatively “safe” schools and communities. Maybe it’s time to remind ourselves that one school’s problem can become every school’s problem if the profession at large is not watchful and careful. No school is immune to the potential of extreme violence, as many of us, without meaning to, have learned. If you’re a long-time, veteran English teacher, you may never have thought you’d see the day when an issue of English Journal would be devoted to school violence. The idea never occurred to me, either. But here we are, and here that issue is. And, what’s more, it’s high time. While none of us needs convincing that the violence problem is serious in a great many places, some of the statistics are sobering.
Schwartz, W. (1996, October). An overview of strategies to reduce school violence. ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education. Retrieved October 21, 2001.
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2002). Are America’s Schools Safe? Students Speak Out: 1999 School Crime Supplement. Retrieved April 28, 2005 from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp/pubid=2002331.
...dolescents to weapons. In many cases children have access to a weapon, particularly a handgun, within their own home. With lack of supervision, children experiment with these dangerous weapons, and may even take them out of their homes. Another contributing factor to violent acts among children is the role of the media and the way that television and movies portray violence. Every where you turn on television and in movies, you see someone killing someone or someone getting killed. Kids see the brutal ways, or the quick and smart schemes of combat tactics. They falsely believe that these types of behaviors are acceptable, because the next week they are back on the show demonstrating another episode of violent acts, with no consequences.
There are very few people today who are unaware of the violence in schools. As college students we live in a world that is desperate to find prevention methods against violence. That makes this issue important to today's college students, considering the fact that we are the generation that could have been involved and directly effected by a school shooting like Columbine. Is this how we want our school systems to be when our children enroll?
Every seven minutes a child is bullied. On average, 68 percent of students say that “other kids pick on them, make fun of them or bully them” (“Statistics”). This causes students to turn to violence. bullied or made fun of which cause them to become violent. How much longer are schools going to sit back and do nothing about bullies? Without punishing bullies, students’ will continue to harm themselves to massive extents. Schools are not doing enough to stop or prevent bullying, as demonstrated by the creation of the group Stand for the Silent.
Bullying, often dismissed as a normal part of growing up, is a real problem in our nation's schools, according to the National School Safety Center. One out of every four schoolchildren endures taunting, teasing, pushing, and shoving daily from schoolyard bullies. More than 43 percent of middle- and high-school students avoid using school bathrooms for fear of being harassed or assaulted. Old-fashioned schoolyard hazing has escalated to instances of extortion, emotional terrorism, and kids toting guns to school. It is estimated that more than 90 percent of all incidents of school violence begin with verbal conflicts, w...
When is it necessary to start taking more action in the prevention of school violence? In less than ten years, in the United States, there have been more than twenty-five school shootings resulting in at least one death per shooting. This number is outrageous and certainly warrants more school violence prevention. It is unacceptable that the schools in the United States are not safe enough to allow children to attend without the possibility of getting seriously injured, or even killed. Most people realize that there is a slight chance of school violence everyday, but not everyone realizes how great a possibility it is for a school to be...
Children are afraid to attend school. This illustrates how some kids may have dropped out. Fights happen in bathrooms and no one know about them until it ends on the internet. This proves the bad side of the internet, which in a way, promotes violence rather than help prevent or stop incidences. Earlier this year, a child was pushed too hard and he hit his head so hard that he was hospitalized. Because fights have gotten dangerous and deadly, other schools can learn from San Francisco by demonstrating other tactics rather than making matters
Bidwell, Allie. "Report: School Crime and Violence Rise" U.S News & World Report, June 10, 2014
One of the problems in our society is violence. We have various kinds of violence. Teenagers in a gang, gun violence, and race violence. This violence among the street and homes has become extremely dangerous to be around. Neighborhoods has become so violence to visit, parents are afraid to tell young peers, “that is not right what you are doing”, you cannot swipe children any more like they did back in the days, and parents did not get angry. Children are afraid to go to school, because of the guns being brought into the schools. Children and adults do not feel safe. There are so much being shown on television, it is not good for children to watch, so much shooting, sex and evil being shown.
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.
School shootings are becoming common place in the news as school violence is on the rise. Statistics state that 31.2 percent of parents said the leading cause for choosing homeschool over public school is “concern about the environment of other schools” (Burke, 2014). According to the CDC fact sheet Understanding School Violence, 12 percent of youth in grades 9-12 report being in a physical fight on school property while 5.9 percent reported that they felt unsafe at school and did not attend. Seven percent of teachers also report that they have been threatened or injured by a student (School Violence, 2013). While only 1 percent of all youth homicides occur at schools, violence does not need to result in a fatality in order to be a concern.