The students were used to wear identity cards with their names and other personal data on it and it seemed normal to them that all doors but the main entrance were locked. But I was very surprised about this security - orientated school system as it is very different to the one in Germany and also much stricter.

I asked myself when and why all these things have begun and I started to ask my exchange partner and her mother questions about school safety.

The answers I got surprised me a lot because the topic “safe schools” is a relatively young theme that has started to become more important in the last few years. And it is only one of those aspects dealing with the rising youth violence in the United States. All these security measures in American high schools were introduced just a few years ago after a terrible event in 1999 that I will reveal later.

So my personal experience in an American high school was the cause how I came to my topic for this paper.

In this work I will inform about the reasons of

To prevent violence the best result only can be achieved by improved communication between adolescents and adults (see last chapter).

Facts of and effects on the school massacre

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