chool dropouts. Education seems to be the one key factor in preventing crimes of this degree form happening. A program based on teaching tolerance for different people, lifestyles, and ways of thinking would be a huge step in diminishing these horrid, brutal crimes. This call for teaching more tolerance in school seems to be a much-needed step in preventing crimes of this magnitude. The ongoing debate about whether or not states need hate crime legislation could be virtually eliminated. These debates are often heated, and make rational people do and say irrational things. Children, who are taught to be open and accepting, have no justification for killing each other. They would not see people who are different as people who have deviated from the norm. There would be no norm for them to compare against. A white child would never be under the impression that he was better than an Asian or a Latino. This kind of program would teach children to believe in individuality, and the value of a person as a whole unit. If children were more tolerant of each other and the decisions made by people, it would lead to fewer people harming other people. Men wouldn’t be drug to death because their skin color wasn’t right. The perpetrators of these brutal crimes could have been taught to be open and accepting of different people. With fewer people hurting and killing each other, the crime rates would obviously fall. This would lead to a chain reaction of fewer people in prison and therefore less taxpayer money spent. The cost of implementing this kind of a program could be paid off very quickly with the money that was saved on inmates. Finally, America as a nation would become more accepting, and embrace people from all walks of life. The effect that a program of teaching tolerance would have on the entire nation could be compared to the drop of a pebble in a lake. We first teach the children and the children in turn teach their parents. This...
