...School Violence : Causes And Remedies Educators and policy makers have been grappling with the issue of violence in schools for decades, .Educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists have all weighed in on the possible causes. Sifting through the theories can be overwhelming, and implementing effective violence prevention programs is often frustrating. No wonder, then, that teachers and administrators often feel defeated when they confront the dangerously aggressive behavior of some pupils. According to a federal survey. Seventy-one percent of all public elementary and secondary schools reported at least one violent incident during the 1999-2003 school years. Causes: Violent behavior and the intent to act violently are potential symptoms of numerous psychiatric disorders. Conduct Disorder, a state of persistent disregard for social conventions and rules and manifesting as criminal and antisocial behavior before the age of 18, is perhaps the most frequently mentioned diagnosis among violent youth. In addition substance abuse and dependence can contribute substantially to violent acts, either by reducing inhibitions among otherwise nonviolent students or by creating a climate through drug transactions in which violence is central. More rarely, impulsive behavior found in conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder can lead to violent outbursts. Finally, diagnoses such as Oppositional Defiant...
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...Dr. Jack Beckham. Eng 102 27th June, 2012 Violence in School. Violence in school have become a very serious problem from past many years. American Schools are not safe. “An estimated 1.5 million U.S. students between the age of 12 to 18 are victims of nonfatal crimes at school” (Hong, and Eamon 428). There is as much violence inside the school building as it is outside. Not only nonfatal crimes, also the fatal crimes such as sexual harassment, bullying and minor in possession of drugs and guns are on dramatic rise. Priscilla Thompson in ‘The New York Amsterdam News’ reported that “according to educational department recorded 800 sexual offences, 53400 fights, 28000 cases of bullying and more than 8000 weapon possession cases” (31). Whereas, in 1996-97 “Ninety percent of public schools had no ‘serious violent-crime’ reported, [but] those that did reported 7150 robberies and 10950 physical attacks” (Koch 884). The violence in school have also been upgraded as the time passed by, because surveys and research have confirmed that violent activities like ‘Bullying’ have caused students kill their peers or commit suicide. Most of the time motives behind killings in school are the same ‘Revenge.’ In 1997, “Michael Carneal, 14, Kill[ed] three students and injured five others at his ... high school ... later he says, he felt going to prison would be better than continuing to endure bullying, he was subjected to in school” (Greenya 111). Young students are standing up for...
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...School Violence Risk factors for violence are not static. Their predictive value changes depending on when they occur in a young person's development, in what social context, and under what circumstances. Risk factors may be found in the individual, the environment, or the individual's ability to respond to the demands or requirements of the environment. Some involve the family, others the neighborhood, the school, or the peer group. Risk factors are not necessarily causes. Most of the risk factors identified do not appear to have a strong biological basis. Instead, it is theorized, they result from social learning or the combination of social learning and biological processes. The bulk of the research that has been done on risk factors identifies and measures their predictive value separately, without taking into account the influence of other risk factors. More important than any individual factor, however, is the accumulation of risk factors. Risk factors usually exist in clusters, not in isolation. Children who are abused or neglected, for example, tend to be in poor families with single parents living in disadvantaged neighborhoods beset with violence, drug use, and crime. Studies of multiple risk factors have found that they have independent, additive effects -- that is, the more risk factors a child is exposed to, the greater the likelihood that he or she will become violent. One study, for example, has found that a 10-year-old exposed to 6 or more risk factors is...
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...Preventing and Intervention for School Violence Project Summary Research evidence indicates that school violence has increased over the past years. The Federal Government has made a committed to ensure school safety and reduce school violence. The “Let my Child Live Foundation” grant application report that I have created will seek to develop reality based intelligence and find out what works to promote safety and healthy environments in the school. We hope to collaborate with juvenile law enforcement personnel, psychiatrist, psychologists and the entire school system to achieve the needed grants and funding. There are many things that we hope to accomplish. If grants are given to this program we will strive to reach our number one goal which is to create a safe school environment, mandatory prevention strategies that every school is mandated to use. There will be student behavioral, emotional and social support given throughout the entire school year. We also hope to achieve substance abuse prevention, on campus mental health services and annual mental health screenings. The schools will also have social and emotional learning programs available to each child early on. School violence has penetrated our nation for quite some time now. School violence is on the rise, and society is wondering why. Violence has injured and killed our youth. The question we must ask is “why are our youth so angry”? The program will work toward providing school and communities in the Chicago...
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...School Violence Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. School violence is a big problem we are facing now. This has caused many problems among students, families’ faculty of schools and residents of the community. School violence includes gang activity, locker thefts, bullying and intimidation, gun use, assault, and drugs. In my paper I will discuss the reasons why violence in schools exists, describe the dangers and effects of school violence and what could or “should be done about it. There is definitely a problem with school violence today. The last 11 years have shown us that violence in our schools society is more common today than ever before. Whether the violence has to do with guns, knives, or just a simple fight, school violence is getting out of hand. In the United States, one-on-one public-school violence, such as beatings and stabbings or violence related to gang activity is more common in some densely populated areas, which tend to be impoverished sections of cities. According to the U S Department of Education, inner-city or urban schools were much more likely than other schools to report serious violent crimes, with 17 percent of city principals reporting at least one serious crime compared to 11 percent of urban schools, 10 percent of rural schools, and five percent of suburban town schools in the 1997 school year. Student-perpetrated school violence...
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...Finding a Solution to School Violence Anita Lopez Kaplan University CM-220 School is a place where children should go to learn, educate themselves, make lifelong friends and most importantly they should feel safe. The violence in schools has increased over the years and many schools aren’t sure how to handle this growing problem in an appropriate manner. School violence may come in various forms and some of the most common forms of school violence include physical abuses, bullying, brawl and verbal abuses but the most common forms are physical abuses and bullying. Schools administrators and teachers should deal with each situation individually, they should give a good amount of time and effort into finding a suitable solution to a given problem. Consequences should allow the student time to reflect on their actions. Violence in schools seems to be a problem with no easy solution. School administrators should take more time into dealing with problem instead of offering a quick solution. According to a 2009 survey, 6.3 % of school-aged youth in the US admitted that they had been victims of school violence acts (nobullying.com, 2014). Violence that occurs within school premises can be caused by the presence of bullies within the school as well as failure by friends, school authorities, teachers, parents and the entire community to effectively play their roles. Some fights can go overboard, especially when bullies try to tame and dominate other students. Since the mid-1990s...
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...Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General. Chapter 4-Risk Factors for Youth Violence. 2000. ww.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/report.html This Web site explains that risk factors for violence are not static. Their predictive value changes depending on when they occur in a young person's development, in what social context, and under what circumstances. Risk factors may be found in the individual, the environment, or the individual's ability to respond to the demands or requirements of the environment. Some factors come into play during childhood or even earlier, whereas others do not appear until adolescence. Some involve the family, others the neighborhood, the school, or the peer group. Some become less important as a person matures. Somewhat informative but not sure if I want to use this source. Alexander Volokh with Lisa Snell. School Violence Prevention: Strategies to Keep Schools Safe. www.rppi.org/ps234.html. This site addresses that school violence is a serious problem, especially in public schools. Improving the quality of American education is difficult without also addressing school violence, since regardless of how good the teachers or curriculum are, violence makes it difficult for students to learn. School violence wears many faces. It includes gang activity, locker thefts, bullying and intimidation, gun use, assault—just about anything that produces a victim. Violence is perpetrated against students, teachers, and staff, and ranges from intentional...
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...1. Introduction School is a medium that seeks to promote positive direction to learners. It serves to instil knowledge and skills needed for them to contribute to their communities. However, within this positive image, it has become evident that schools are infiltrated by violence. Burton and Leoschut (2012) see violence as something which does not start in schools; or is initiated by learners only. It has come to attention that violence comes from teachers as well. In an attempt to understand the concept of violence it is essential to define it. World Health Organizations (WHO) (2002:5) defines violence as: The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, (against oneself), another person, or against a group or community,...
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... Nowadays, the term “School violence” is not strange for many people. This is becoming a serious problem for many years and this phenomenon is not only decrease but rise everyday in many schools. Schools were considered to be safe in the previous era but due to this school violence they no longer remain a safe place. Though the cases of violence are quite rare but still a check is required. 2. WHAT IS “SCHOOL VIOLENCE”? School violence is any form of violent activity or activities inside the school premises. It includes bullying, physical abuses, verbal abuses, brawl, shooting etc. Bullying and physical abuses are the most common forms of violence that is associated with school violence. However extreme cases such as shooting and murder have also been listed as school violence. For example: Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in 1999, Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007… School violence starts out with the bully on the playground, or the pushing and shoving in the lunch line. Most of the fights were found as the “battle” of not only two individuals, in many cases, the ‘main actors’ in the fights were gangs and groups. Not only schoolboys, but schoolgirls also fight each other. 3. WHY DOES IT HAPPEN? School violence isn't easy to understand. There is no single reason why students become violent. Most behaviors are learned responses to circumstances and situations that are exhibited in our everyday life. • Bullies inside the school premises. These bullies...
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...School Violence : Causes And Remedies Educators and policy makers have been grappling with the issue of violence in schools for decades, .Educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists have all weighed in on the possible causes. Sifting through the theories can be overwhelming, and implementing effective violence prevention programs is often frustrating. No wonder, then, that teachers and administrators often feel defeated when they confront the dangerously aggressive behavior of some pupils. According to a federal survey. Seventy-one percent of all public elementary and secondary schools reported at least one violent incident during the 1999-2003 school years. Causes: Violent behavior and the intent to act violently are potential symptoms of numerous psychiatric disorders. Conduct Disorder, a state of persistent disregard for social conventions and rules and manifesting as criminal and antisocial behavior before the age of 18, is perhaps the most frequently mentioned diagnosis among violent youth. In addition substance abuse and dependence can contribute substantially to violent acts, either by reducing inhibitions among otherwise nonviolent students or by creating a climate through drug transactions in which violence is central. More rarely, impulsive behavior found in conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder can lead to violent outbursts. Finally, diagnoses such as Oppositional Defiant...
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...Current Events Impact on School Counseling Profession Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred December 14, 2012 in Newton, Connecticut. This was one of the deadliest mass shooting at a grade school in the history of the United States. A 20 year old male, Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staffers. Lanza also shot his mother. Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Lanza had significant mental health issues which psychologist say did affect his ability to live a normal life. (www.CNN.com). Today there are has been more than 100 school shootings since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. (www.schoolsecurity). Traumatic stress and psychological distress play a major role in counseling children. School counseling has become even more valuable in the U.S. due to traumatic events such as school shootings. School shootings have had a major impact on students, families and communities. There is a more security and law enforcement present at schools across the US and metal detectors in schools also. School children are being taught how to prepare if there is a shooter or shooters in schools. Due to the increased acts of violence in schools and the need for intensive intervention in student issues, school personnel, school boards, and communities are recognizing the need to provide effective prevention and intervention programs to address social, emotional, and academic needs of students. (Davis, T., 2015, Exploring School Counseling). In the next...
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...- - - - - When you are a middle or high school public school teacher, events happen instantaneously, and you have to be equal to the task of confronting the challenge of an unexpected situation face to face. You never know when or where school violence will erupt; a teacher only knows that it inevitably will. Teachers not only must be wary of being inadvertently injured by enraged “students” fighting in the hallway or the cafeteria, a peer might even wind-up becoming a threat to one’s physical safety. I recall one particular eighth grade Washington trip. As usual, I was chaperoning one hundred twenty eighth graders on the Hammonton Middle School’s annual class DC trip. We had just arrived back at the Mt. Vernon Motel after visiting the Jefferson Memorial. The nine chaperones were fatigued, but the “students” were still rambunctious. Since the “children” had been well behaved, the school rewarded them with a pizza party in the motel’s Madison Room. Five of the Hammonton’ chaperones escorted the first half of “students” from the party back to their rooms, which were located in a remote section of the expansive motel. The other half of the entourage was later escorted to their quarters by three other chaperones and myself. Another male teacher and I made sure all of our “students” had evacuated the Madison Room, and we brought up the rear of the second batch of sixty kids. Suddenly, a male chaperone from a Catholic high school class that had also been staying at the Tyson’s...
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...In 1999, two students at Columbine High School with semi-automatic weapons stormed around the campus, murdering 12 students. Eight years later, the same nightmare is relived when Seung-Hui Cho from Virginia Technical Institute shoots and kills 27 students and five faculty members. The federal government responds to these massacres by passing laws which do not prevent teenagers from acquiring deadly weapons. I believe the federal government should take more action concerning violence in schools. Some may argue that violence in schools is unpreventable; that bullying and school shootings will always be inevitable even if the government takes more action. Although this is true, the government can reduce the number of violent occurrences by passing stricter laws and enforcing them. It is the government’s responsibility to make sure that students are in check. By in check, I mean that government should strengthen school security, require schools to implement anti-bully laws just like the one in Arkansas, except on a federal level. By doing this, students would feel safer and more comfortable going to school and at school, and there would also be less school shootings like the ones at Columbine and Virginia Tech. Others may also argue that the federal government has taken steps to reduce juvenile violence in schools. On January 5, 2008, George Bush signed a law that forbids those declared convicts or mentally ill from purchasing guns. S.M. Smith, judge of the Arkansas judicial court...
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...First School: River Oaks Charter School The first school I visited River Oaks Charter School (ROCS), a K-5th elementary school which is located in within a community that has mostly families living below the poverty. ROCS is a well diverse school when it comes to ethnicity. I chose this school to visit due to the uniqueness in demographic location and pupil/staff ethnicity. The diverse nature of the school calls for various issues that can arise. For example, misunderstanding of culture; which can result in bullying. I wanted to see how bullying is perceived, intervened, and prevented and if there are any programs within the school that targets bullying. What programs exist and if they being taken seriously and if students feel safe at school. Is there any training for staff, students, and even people within the community? What is the definition of bullying? It is when someone is victim to or exposed to excess, repeated, unwanted negative behavior over a period of time. This can be defined as verbal, physical, social, psychological/mental, cyber bullying (social media), sexual, racial, visual (graffiti), and/.or emotional (stopbullying.gov, 2015). These are some of the issues that can arise at a school with such diversity and due to its location. When it comes to school safety and prevention of violence, ROCS is pretty much on task and is prepared to provide information to staff, students and parents. Like many of the schools in Stockton, the front doors are locked and visitors...
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...Violence in schools is a growing problem and depression is often used to explain why this rise in violence is happening. Abuse at home and bullying can be a root cause for depression which lead to a root cause of gun violence. The lack of help for depression can lead to worse things if not treated which could lead to gun violence. Many kids in high school especially deal with violence in school. According to Kann L, McManus T, Harris WA, et al. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, 7.8% students have been in a physical fight at school and 20.2% have been bullied on school property. (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance) Because of this, in can be concluded that depression is a root cause of school violence. Does the lack of availability to help for depression lead to an increase in school violence. Depression can't be...
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