The Use of Pencils as Weapons During School-yard Violence

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Violence in our schools has always been a problem, now more than ever before. Each year many students are injured and some are even killed during so-called "school-yard brawls." In fact, more than 1,000 students are seriously injured per year during school violence in California alone. (http://www.geocities.com/area51/stats/7403.html) In most cases of serious injury, weapons were involved, including common school supplies such as pencils and pens. Historically, the school systems response to possession of weapons on campus has been at the very least confiscation of said weapons and suspension of the possessor, more commonly expulsion of the possessor and occasionally the bringing of criminal charges to bear. The use of weapons to do violence has had much the same results. In some schools, the students pass through a metal detector and/or are searched for weapons upon a regular basis. (Ch. 4 news at 6:00), However, when the weapons being used are common school supplies, what can one do? The number of students injured by their classmates with common school supplies such as pencils and pens are on the rise. A student carrying a gun or a knife is often busted before having an opportunity to use said weapon, one with a pencil on the ot

A much cheaper alternative would be to greatly increase the penalty for the use of weapons in school. If a much heftier fine and/or jail sentence were attached to being convicted of assault with a weapon upon school grounds, fewer people would commit the crime. Furthermore, revenue brought in by the fines could be used to fund a greater security presence upon the campus. This is of course a much more general solution, one which would most likely cut down upon violence on campus in general. Although many would say that students are children and thus cannot properly understand the consequences of their actions, thereby claiming that punishment for them should be mad less severe, not more, students at the highschool level are practically adults, they are making decisions which will affect the rest of their lives, at that level of education, they must learn to deal with the consequences of their actions. Though increasing the severity of the penalty for using a weapon on someone at school is a generic answer for an increase in that crime, it is generic because it is cheap and reasonably effective.

My advice would be to levy a very large fine on people who use a pencil or a pen as a weapon in school. Though replacing pencils and pens with computers would be nice, it would be far too expensive to be practical. (http://www.ch

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