... Washington: where Barry Loukaitis, 14, walks into a junior high algebra class and opens fire with a hunting rifle, killing the teacher and two students and wounding one other. In October 1997, he was convicted of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and sentenced to tow mandatory life terms ... gestures directed at them. (Ed and DOJ a trying to get better data on hate crimes now). There is also a Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative grants being given. The grant requires comprehensive, integrated community wide plans to address school safety developed jointly by local school d...

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... injury to another person. Violence is found even in schools, which were thought to be safe places. Many things must be done to identify students that may perform violent acts, discover the possible sources of violent behavior, and resolve this increasing problem. The most effective method in stopping ... formation of a negative identity for the student. This negative identity may cause teenagers to deliberately engage in forms of negative and violent behavior. Students that do not feel accepted often feel isolated and remote. This isolation can sometimes force a student to act out viole...

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... learning to use violence taught him that he would only survive if he fought with other children. Through Canada's experiences, we learn that it is not instinct that drives us to commit atrocities but our culture. Geoffrey Canada illustrates the urban America's culture of violence by ... proving that children learn violence because of the environment they grew up in. The economic status that Canada and his family were living in prevented them from ... through incidences such as these and became psychologically prepared for other possible hostile scenarios. Canada claims that "violence is ...

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... the society or community as a whole. Common school violence have to deal with harassment and the use of weapons in schools. These two share a relationship among each other, which is students who use weapons at school often are acting on the rage they feel as victims of harassment. Harassment is an unwanted remark or action that causes a person emotional or physical ... epidemic that has been in schools for a long time now, it threatens students physically, emotionally, and takes away their sense of safety at school. Bullying impacts students in various ways it impacts their ability to l...

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... that a gun is much more intimidating than a fist. There is nothing scarier than arriving at school afraid of what may happen next. Many students are faced with this problem everyday. Children should feel safe when they walk into school. Many people use violence as an expression to release feelings ... This isn't easy, though. Since there is no single cause of violence, there is no one simple solution. The best you can do is learn to recognize the warning signs of violence and to get help when you see them in your friends or yourself. Teachers tend to believe that school ... media. Thes...

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... utilized. The best solution, however, is to set forth school uniforms. Dress codes help students learning ability. There is less of a distraction when students dress appropriately. By having dress code rules students become more disciplined and learn to behave. With uniforms a big distraction is removed from the classroom. Also, students can get more sleep because they don't have to decide what to wear in the ... morning. Violence is removed, as well. Students no longer would be tortured because their family is ... a strict dress code improves the grades in a school because discipline i...

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... need to lock up their guns, keep their safeties on, and educate people about guns at an early age. Recent suburban and rural school shootings are atypical. Schools should recognize students that are having problems and try to help any way they can. Schools should be aware and prepared and some should take higher security measures. The sooner these problems are ... about violence reduces quality of teaching, limits teacher availability to be involved with school. Kids with social or violence problems should receive special attention outside of the classroom so other students are not disa...

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... human life itself. America needs to crack down and needs to aid the fight against domestic violence. The American government should become more involved in educating students about the problems concerning domestic violence. Doing so would safe lives; decrease future domestic violence cases and would save money for businesses and health departments. ... , or receive medical care. You will be instituted in a home where many people are in the same situation as you are, and you can learn and cope with each other. What we fail to realize is that these places take away our freedoms and our righ...

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... of many experiences and will impact mental and emotional growth. Soon afterwards children will then lose opportunities to make friends, play games, and will not learn how to solve their own problems (Healy 1). Elementary students are more likely to stay up later to watch adult programs, this will cause them to lose sleep and therefore be tired at school ("Parents and ... violence looks the higher possibility of it to be learner. The images on television can make a kid mentally damaged and defenseless (How TV Affects Your Child 1). "They will quickly learn that violence is an acceptable so...

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... quietly to herself, "Why?" On April 20, 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into their high school and started shooting their fellow students, and by the time it was all over 13 were dead including themselves. All the students of that school that knew them, all the teachers, all of the police, and all the parents had the same question, "Why ... understanding the certain things that lead up to somebody disturbing behaviors, such as shooting innocent people in their high school, there would never be solutions to these problems. People should learn from other's mistakes. That is the ...

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... are now the answer to overpopulation. You don't want to wait in a long line? No problem! Simply plow right through everyone with your semi-automatic. That is exactly what the students in Littleton, Colorado did. They said to themselves, "This school is too crowded with jocks and other losers, let's kill them all." They did exactly that. Look at the results ... is seen on your lawn, immediately yell, "Get off of my property!" wait three seconds, and fire away with your trusty 12 gauge shotgun; so they look like grammar school students, so what? They should know better. And don't worry ab...

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... about it first before they break into someone's home or car. By helping safer schools exist I would be helping parents, schools and other oriented organizations to have a safer place to learn, work and play in today's climate of rising youth violence. While schools are statistically the safest place for children to be, I think that more must be done to insure an ... schools need to take control and to identify what the local issues are that may be causing fear and anxiety on the part of students and staff. Once the local issues have been identified, school administrators, working with s...

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... the question. They just sit calm and give out blank looks. These kids are not likely to survive in the future. They withdraw from other people and activities. About 14 % students do not participate in school activities due to silent ness caused by violence at home (Stark 93). Silent children also don't say anything if they are being made the target ... of anxiety or nervousness about being killed or hurt. They are some who attempt to commit suicide (Newton 3). Some children stay confused because at school they learn that hitting is wrong and at home they learn that hitting is used to so...

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... as being his favorite movie. The sixteen-year-old boy, when found to be guilty, affirmed that Stephen King himself told him to do it. It is commonly questioned "why students have now become so violent" (Greenberg 214), and the answer is commonly related to that of media influence. The more violence that children consume from movies and media alike, the ... one. It seems that the more children are given the availability to watch movies that glamorize homicide, the greater the potential for them to fancy the idea of killing. People learn by the actions of other people, and children's acti...

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... as being his favorite movie. The sixteen-year-old boy, when found to be guilty, affirmed that Stephen King himself told him to do it. It is commonly questioned "why students have now become so violent" (Greenberg 214), and the answer is commonly related to that of media influence. The more violence that children consume from movies and media alike, the ... one. It seems that the more children are given the availability to watch movies that glamorize homicide, the greater the potential for them to fancy the idea of killing. People learn by the actions of other people, and children's acti...

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... see long before they can read. An American child today is born into a home in which television is on an average of over seven hours a day. By thee time children learn to read and distinguish news from other stories, they are fully integrated into a television view of the world." (Gerbner 96) "It has often been noted that by the time the ... own neighborhood at night. Testing the theory that television's violent tendencies cultivate an idea of an over estimated prevalence of violence. He found that among heavy viewers "Females and young students are more afraid overall"(Gerbner 1978) Thi...

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... child goes to school five days a week and is around about thirty classmates per day. When you have a child demonstrating such behaviors as loudness or roughhousing this can engage other students into the same kind of activity. For example, if two children are playing fighting and this behavior is tolerated by someone in authority, another set of children may think it ... takes place in a classroom or educational setting, it can disturb other children from learning. This then can cause a disruption for the teacher and could defeat the purpose of learning. Children learn early certain rul...

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... aggression, pain, and injury in sport suggest the need for athletes to be "tough" to succeed or endure in athletic competition (Nixon, 1993). That is, we would expect athletes who learn to express tough attitudes and engage in aggressive or violent behavior as part of their sports role to be more physically aggressive or violent outside of sport. In many was ... between 1980 and 1990 and found that most involved fraternity brothers and varsity athletes, specifically football and basketball players (Neimark, 1991). A survey of 1,050 athletes and more than 10,000 students by the Towson St...

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... invented the gun! Guns are now the answer to overpopulation. Don't want to wait in a long line? Just plow right through everyone with your semi-automatic. That's exactly what the students in Littleton did. They said to themselves, "This school is too crowded with jocks and other losers, let's kill them all." They did exactly that. Just look at the results ... other's limbs off and seeing clay blood and gore fly everywhere is one of the best sites anyone will ever see. The news is the fastest ways for Americans to learn what acts of violence have happened in the "real world." With report...

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... killings and gruesome effects. In fact, one student said the killers acted like they were playing a video game, choosing their targets at random and laughing when they died.(tenth)" The students where obviously deeply effected by video games. Music is also a factor in school violence. "shoot the kids at school all in a bloody pool i'll show the teachers too 'cuz they ... , if school violence had only one cause it would much easy to prevent it but the media, School harassment, and social problems will always remain. The public will have to learn to deal with these problems as a whole and ...

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... , Children may be more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others." (Violence on Television - What do Children Learn? What Can Parents Do?) Many years ago, problems in school were chewing gum and running in the halls. Now, students fear for their lives as our schools have turned into war zones, with school shootings becoming a national problem. Many attribute this ... ...

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