In the early 1970’s there was a variety of problems with the inner-city schools and it has seemed to finally spread to the urban and rural areas in the early 1990�

A few of Americas’ schools in high crime areas have good disciplined students, but then there are other schools whose students are very disrespectful. How is it that, two schools, in high crime areas both turn out differently in the manner the children act? One school comes out with a bad reputation and the other school comes out to be a haven in the area. The author, Sam Smith, believes that good management is what causes one school to turn out more disciplined students than from the other school that is in the same area well known for high crime. Good management includes good judgment, social skills, and a proper way of running a program or business. So society has to be careful of having the appropriate principal that can handle and manage the school correctly. Sam Smith writes about the consequences of not having a principal with good management and “Including one who returned a weapon to a gun-toting student at the end of the day” (103).

The television set is also a problem that brings violent perceptions to our children in the form of cartoons, violent programs, and other issues. In the book, “School Crime and Juvenile Justice” Richard Lawrence, the author, says the, “Media portrayals of youth crime tend to overgeneralize and exaggerate the problem” (14). Not every kid in the nation is going out to hurt or kill any one, but they have more of a chance of replaying a violent scene they have seen on television. Kopka agrees by stating, “Some psychologists contend that children imitate the violence they see in the media” (14). Not all kids are prone to hit and cause disorder, but some children are more susceptible to violent images than others. If society shares these violent images with their children, how can they criticize the implications of it now?

be in life or in school. We just have to learn how to live with it and not be one of its unsuspecting victims.

The implications range from small disruptive acts to violent outbursts of gunfire. Now that there has been so much focus on school shootings in the suburbs in the past years, it has turned into a tragedy, but before when a shooting would happen in an inner city it never was such a concern for the media. Ever since that fatal day on April 20, 1999, the first major school shoo

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