Solutions to School Violence Since the early 1990

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Since the early 1990s, the media has reported several high-profile cases of gun violence in schools in the United States. Such reports have led to a popular belief that such violence is rampant in U.S. schools, and that students are in danger of being shot to death whenever they go to school. Despite such reports, however, U.S. students reports incidences of non-fatal aggression, such as bullying, to be a greater problem in their lives than the threat or fear of gun violence (Kieff 253). Therefore, solutions to school violence in the United States must look beyond the high-profile and often sensationalized multiple-victim shootings to the myriad everyday and often less sensational forms of aggression in schools if they are to be truly effective at resolving the problem.

Scholarly research has uncovered numerous causes for school violence. Some studies point to childrenÆs exposure to violence in their own families and communities. Such exposure includes childrenÆs unsupervised access to violent television shows, movies, video games and guns, as well as their ability to access information on how to make explosives (IACP). In some cases, childrenÆs participation in these activities often reflect poor parenting practices, including the parentsÆ lack of interest in their childrenÆs activities. Other studies have discovered that many students often feel peer pressure to harass or bully other students, which can lead to the bullied studentsÆ des

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evaluate their physical security plans as an initial prevention measure while they work on the longer-term strategies of addressing studentsÆ internalized approaches to violence (IACP: Lenhardt and Willert 37-44). However, surveys of students in middle- and high-school suggest the relying only on physical security measures, which create restrictive environments, send a negative message to school students. Such measures tell students that the school does not trust them; in fact it fears them. Truly effective solutions to school violence, therefore, must utilize longer-term strategies based on strong relationships between students and a variety of school and community elements. Bob Reising, a professor in the Department of Communicative Studies at Pembroke University, Pembroke, North Carolina, agrees, maintaining that there are no ôquick fixesö for school violence; only long-range, systemic responses that are refined through continuous research (Reising). It is likely that some form of the ôcausesö of school violence mentioned above have always existed in schools and will always exist in schools. The real question is not how to remove them completely and forever, but rather how to educate children to resolve in non-violent way
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