School Violence

Violence is a problem many school are facing today. Across the United States violence in schools continues to grow. There are more possibilities of violent acts taking place in public schools than in private schools. Though the years there has always been violence acts in schools. School violence is problems that may come from home, media, neighborhoods, or even from some roles models.

"Violence is identified by the federal government as one of our leading public health problems; it does not stop at any schools front doors" (Kopka). As far as we can see there are many violent acts in schools, but some times these actions come from home. The miss behavior and the lack of achievements in school make grades begin to drop. Violent doesn't have to be just physical harm. "Often violent acts can be included to demean, harm, or infringe up one another civil right" (Kopka). For this reason, harm also can be verbal and mentally damage. For an example name calling would not scare a person in a physical way, but it would hurt him/her in a mental way.

"The last three years have shown us that violence in our school society is more common today than ever before" (School Violence). Now a days it is common for students to call each other names, sometimes these are students carrying a gun or even starting a fight in school. "Government educators had (...) found over 2,000 weapons stashed by students in lockers, backpacks" (School Violence). This proves that school are not all that safe for us the students. Researchers show that in school shootings in these last three years (they are usually done by the one you least expect) have shocked many people. It only takes one person, to destroy a school and many of its students' lives. "As more violent acts occurs, more kids are afraid to go to school" (School Violence). Students often seem afraid because all the violent acts that have occurred in schools.

Students seem to be scare because of things so common like name calling, fighting, or harassments that could end up in a school shooting. Violence keeps building upon student teachers and society. If students seem to be scare to go to school because they don't feel safe, then we know that we have a problem.

School violence does not just start in school. Often it comes from home, the neighborhood they live in, in there community's that surround theme or people they look up to. Or like other kids they get it from the media, they like to mimic there favorite characters or do what they do in there favorite shows they watch, from T.V. radio, movies and so on. "Music television... [Has] introduced the nations children to a vocabulary of profanity, sex, and violence" (Wekesser). Youth has observed all of these actions around them and in the media and some try to follow there role models as shown. Kids that follow these actions, it could lead them to braking laws as in robbery assault and some times to rape. "Up to 45% of youth carry weapons to school because they feel that they need to protection also 29% of rape (sic) from youth girls offenders use a weapon by the student" (Wekesser). "Television is not the only thing that influence many students, also music as "heavy metal and rap music (...) contains an element of hate and abuse against women" (Weekseon). In school grounds