had committed violent acts on school grounds had very high levels of stress (Baker 83). A way in which schools can implement this suggestion would be that all students go though a required evaluation with a psychologist on a monthly basis (Gerson 165). This would allow the school administrators to take a closer look into their children’s minds and be able to prevent problems that arise from the stress of the children. This could lead to a decrease in violent acts performed on school grounds.Students and teachers are feeling increasingly unsafe in school. Teachers polled in the Metropolitan Life Survey of the American Teachers showed that one out of every six teachers had become a victim to an act of school violence (Kipnis 22). In 1997, Children’s Institute International Poll of American Adolescents surveyed students, and forty-seven percent thought their schools were becoming more violent (Volkoh 6). Ten percent of these students were also in fear of being hurt or shot by other classmates (Volkoh 7). Twenty percent of students polled were also afraid to go to restrooms because the restrooms were unsupervised and were the target spots for many violent acts (National Center for Educational Statistics, 1998). Many schools have taken steps to allow the children and teachers to feel at ease while they are at school. Some steps many schools have chosen to put into place are random locker checks, video cameras, and metal detectors near the front entrance (Futrell 8).Studies have shown that in order for school violence to be prevented all of the intervention programs mentioned above need to be in place (Baker 98). One school should not just implement one of the suggestions. William Modzeleski of the U.S. Department of Education once said, "There is no one program, no silver bullet, so that you can get one program up and say, Here it is if you put this program in your school, you are going to resolve violence."(Kipnis 30) O...
