rvention is applied through counseling and mentoring programs placed within each school for students and teachers who believe they or other students are having a problem (Kipnis 22). Mandatory safety programs have also been placed in schools that are implementing the early intervention programs (Kipnis 27). Safety programs allow students and teachers the opportunity to be taught how to deal with violence if it occurs. This allows the students and teachers to feel a little at ease that, if something were to occur, they would be prepared.Another suggestion that school boards and researchers have recommended for schools to prevent school violence is discipline codes (Futrell 13). These discipline codes should be determined by each school system. They should also be clearly defined to all the parents, students, and teachers each year. Principals in each school also need to look at the discipline codes as a positive influence and not negative. They should also encourage to students to look at them the same way. A final suggestion that has been given to schools is that the discipline codes should be enforced firmly, fairly, and consistently (Futrell 6).An additional approach many school systems have implemented is staff training (Futrell 10). Of teachers polled in 2000, fifty-two percent, stated that they interacted more with their students did then with the students' families (Futrell 8). Many teachers also said that they could see violent features in students starting as early as pre-kindergarten and also see that nothing is done about these students (Kipnis 77). Staff training at schools should include strategies to work with families outside of school and work with the surrounding communities. One final approach that administrators and parents need to take in order to prevent violence from occurring within schools is to try and reduce the stress of students (Baker 61). It has been shown that fourteen percent of students that ...
