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violence in school

violence in school Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. Violence in schools has become a big problem in today's society. With all the people being injured or killed in schools by guns, knives, bombs and other ammunitions, more and more people are bring weapons in to our schools. According, to the survey taken after the in-school shootings nearly half of all males and one-third of all students including females said they could easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to. The cause of violence can be blamed on many things but mainly on one thing is drugs and gangs. Now that more people are selling and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since they came around violence have been increasing steadily. The spread of gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of school youths. Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes. Carrying guns and other weapons around schools is becoming more and more popular all around the world. Kids think that carrying guns around schools with them will make them cool or fit in with other kids like themselves. They're wrong. More and more kids who are carrying guns around schools today are getting caught and arrested. Since schools have gotten metal detectors and scanners, they have cut down the rate of having handguns in schools by nearly 58%. Security experts have reported that there is no evidence that a metal detector will solve the problem of violence in schools, even though it offers a highly visible symbol to the community. Even if schools with gun violence put in metal detectors at the front entrances of schools, their are many ways kids can sneak in weapons to school. In 1990 congress made it a felony to bring a gun within one thousand feet of any school under the "Gun-Free School Zones" provision of the 1990 crime prevention package. These laws wont help very much because of the fact that students can sneak in weapons through bathroom windows, or an unguarded entrance during recess. So there isn't really a safe and reliable way to keep guns away from schools. Security has become a big part of schools today. More and more schools have been getting metal detectors installed. The N.Y. city public schools report that since the introduction to metal detectors in 1988, serious incidents have declined by 58% in schools with scanners and by 43% without them. Every school should start putting in metal detectors and scanners if they want to cut down violence. Some schools districts that experimented with metal detectors for a short time found them a bit frustrating. It has become very easy to obtain a gun. A survey of Baltimore public-schools students showed that the four most prevalent places to get guns are street corners, friends, drug dealers, and thieves. And kids all over the world are getting guns from all these places but nobody is doing anything about it. It is very easy for someone to Obtain a handgun. All they have to do is go to one of these four places and buy one. Where do they get the money to buy these guns you ask? From selling drugs. If we could stop the selling of drugs just by 20% or even 15%, there would be a less violence due to the lack of money.Teachers are in as much danger of being killed or attacked, as kids are at school. The recent examples are the series of shooting which took place in 1998 started with columbine high school. The risk of a teacher being attacked by a student has doubled since 1956.This is a lot considering that you don't hear about too many teacher attacks on the news but you do hear about teens being killed. Approximately 100 teachers have been assaulted annually in the past four school years. Last year in about six incidents which highlighted the newspapers about 25 students along with 5 teachers were killed due to high school shooting. The big problem involving violence is how we can stop the violence from spreading and increasing. Not nearly as many teens would have guns if they didn't get the money from selling drugs. So if we can stop the selling of drugs, less people will have money to buy guns and their will be less violence. We can also blame some parents for violence. When parents buy a gun and put it in a unsacred place that their kid could get a hold of it and bring it to school, already you're in trouble. This is why parents should lock away their weapons not just stick it in a draw or on the top shelf of a closet. Parents are responsible for the conduct and safety of there children and by keeping a gun where they can get hold of it their putting their kids in danger. Violence has caused many problems. Many people have been killed or seriously injured because of violence. What we should do to try and prevent violence in schools from increasing is teach our children about guns and violence at a young age and the affects it can cause. Keep our children from watching violence movies and listening to violence music until they’re their at the age that they can understand its only entertainment. My mother always told me it takes more then two parents to raise a child, it takes a whole village. Meaning if we as a nation are going to put a stop to youth violence its going to take the community to raise are children. By saying that I mean we need more youth centers for the kids to hang out at. Instead of the streets, we need more youth activities, and for the parents to support their children in any activity they participate in to make the children feel loved. Because not feeling loved is what sometimes drives kids to gangs where they feel that they will receive that love they need from. Bibliography:

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