ay there is no way to spot a potential killer.In 1998 the FBI was to release a report listing problem characteristics to help parents and educators identify the seriousness of a student's threat. The report details warning signs in four areas of a student's life: 1) personality, 2) family, 3) school behavior, and 4) other factors such as drugs and alcohol. This report is supposed to be very helpful to parents and school officials in controlling the safety of their school. Some indicators that would turn a student to violence are: 1) social withdraw, 2) excessive feelings of isolation behavior, and 4) what went on early in the kid's life.What made these students into killers that they would consciously go out and kill people? No one will ever know except the student who did it. What steps should be taken to help these kids? School counselors are a good idea, but they seem to be preoccupied with students who have learning disabilities.Many schools are now adopting a zero tolerance policy. They are pulling out every student who does anything suspicious. When a school expels a student for writing about violence for an assignment is said to be an overreaction. But is it? Incidents like th boy in Virginia who was expelled for waving a stapler on the school bus, or the girl in Florida who was suspended or bringing finger nail clippers to class, and the boy who wrote "you will die with honor" when his teacher asked him to write a fortune cookie message. These three are all ridiculous and there in no reason to carry it that far. Zero tolerance is good, but not for these cases. But the students who bring guns to school, start fires or threaten the lives of others should be expelled immediately. Zero tolerance should cover serious offenses like, violence, weapons, threats, drugs, alcohol, bomb threats, cheating and harassment.In 1998, statistics showed the crime rate in the United States declined 6.4% and murder went down 7.4%. Forty...
