At 11:19 am on April 20, 1999, two heavily armed young men stormed Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Video surveillance cameras had every movement of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold on tape while the two young men wounded twenty-eight people, killed fifteen, and then turned the guns on themselves. The victims' families and many other people of the nation are still asking many questions. "What took SWAT teams more than forty-five minutes-almost the entire length of the rampage-to get inside of the school, and another three-plus hours to get to the library?" Many fatal school attacks have happened since 1996, all of which were extremely shocking to the public.

School violence is a serious problem, especially in public schools. Improving the quality of American education is difficult without also addressing the issue of school violence, since

difficult for students to learn. In fact, in the "Millennium School 2000" survey, ninety-three percent say that school safety strongly impacts academic performance.

In conclusion, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to school violence. Since no solution clearly works in all cases, each school should try their own methods. Different schools, in different communities, will differ in their reasonable interpretations of the same data; people disagree on "what works" partly because they disagree on what it means to "work". Schools should be free to experiment with different systems to find the solution that is best for their own needs so that school violence can be controlled better in the United States.

also use police or security departments that are based inside of the school. Two hundred and forty-five of the nations fifteen thousand school districts have police or security departments. One hundred and fifty-six districts have uniformed officers, of which one hundred and two districts have armed officers. In an economic standpoint, it will cost a lot of capital for schools to pay for security guards, metal detectors, etc. Walk-through metal detectors can cost up to ten thousand dollars alone and x-ray units cost up to seventeen thousand dollars. School districts cannot afford to place these costly security items in every school.

The public's concern about discipline and violence in the schools is well spoken. Violence caused by school-age children (in and out of school) is worse now than it has ever been. It is on the rise and affects every part of American society. However, this does not mean that all of today's youths are discipline problems or perpetrators of acts of violence. In fact, the majority of America's youths are not violent, nor have ever committed acts of violence.

There are obviously many benefits to extreme measures being taken place to control violence in schools. If the schools' strategies are effective, it will decrease the number of deaths from shootings, decrease the number of fights on school property, and decrease the number of students bringing weapons to school. Students and teachers will feel safer at school and will most l

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