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School violence

 

            
             When someone begins talking of their opinions on school shootings, I form a mental picture of a small, red, one-room schoolhouse with that big bell on top that we've seen in pictures from yesteryears. The kids playing hopscotch and jumping rope in the front yard until that huge bell let out it's monotonous ringing. The perfect little school in the perfect little hamlet of the good old USA. We"re far from this happy scene now.
             Why do we now think of school so differently? Now I picture schools covered in security officers, lined with metal detectors, not practicing fire drills, but practicing terrorist drills. Kids no longer swinging fists, but swinging knives through the air at each other. Kids don't talk back to their teachers anymore, teachers withstand screaming from students they"re terrified of. When did that role reversal occur? My mother and her fellow baby boomers speak of days gone by when they sat in class and were assigned detention for things we do on a regular basis and receive no punishment for. They giggled and passed notes, we use profanity and leave bomb threats. When did we stop respecting teachers as mentors and lose respect from teachers as pupils?.
             Why are we so quick to blame? Students blame teachers, parents blame the media, teachers blame parents. Then we"re all shocked that the law blames the actual perpetrators? This idea makes no common sense to me. Perhaps I am alone in doing this, and perhaps I"m also the first to say it, but it's our fault. In saying it's our fault, I mean as a teenager, I take partial responsibility for what everyone else is pointing fingers about. .
             I've grown quite tired of hearing that if the teachers respected us as students more, we"d respect them more also. This is true. However, students and teachers are, by nature, stubborn and untrustworthy of each other. While I am not sure when the huge unbalance, shift and overall loss of respect between these two parties occurred, I am quite sure that it occurred in a synchronized manner.


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