Insanity Is it in our Schools
What exactly is the definition of insanity? Insanity is being in a mental state of mind that does not allows you to make correct decisions on events that are occurring at that moment. But this definition is not always the same through out the United States. One person's definition is not always the same as the next. This comes into conflict when trying to decide someone's fate in court cases, and this is especially important when it involves a minor that has committed a serious crime. As an example to the seriousness of some of the crimes, look at all of the school shootings that have been occurring throughout the United States. What are we to do with young children that are now sentenced to prison for life without parole? To call them insane is not the answer. We need to find something that can be done to help stop the huge number of young people in the correctional system. Because the huge amount of money it costs to house inmates per year is extreme, and it is costing the taxpayers enough money already to house the adult inmates. We need to find alternate solutions other than sending these young men and woman to prison for the rest of their life, and causing them to legally go
You might be asking what else can we do to change these young people if the problem is not at home. What these kids do when they are not at home is another main concern. Whether it be the friends they hang around with, drugs and/or alcohol, sex, and the activities they do when they are out. The peer pressure effect has link to all the other problems. Kids want to fit in no matter what they have to do to get in the group (click) they will do it. In the Columbine High School shooting the two young gentlemen You might be asking what is some ways that we can protect our children in schools. Well the schools are now putting in locks on doors that only open from the inside, cameras on the inside and the outside of the school, more police presence in schools, and teaching students how to manage their anger by talking to people about their problems instead of resorting to violence. There is no reason for young men and women to be killing each other over words. Parents need to take an active role in their children's life and show then what they also had to go through when they were in school. Nothing has changed between when they went to show and us, but it has changed in how the children of today respond to the problem in which they are facing. What can be causing are kids to grow up in such a manor that everything has to be resolved with violence. Well it is easy to blame it on the time period or their surroundings, but it has more to do with what they feel is right by what they experience everyday in their lives. Single parents are at the highest percentage than ever before. This only increases the effect of what the children think is right. So if the parents are not there to so them right from wrong that is besides the police and the authority figures at schools and other places kids go. If they are not taught how are we to blame them for wrong. Discipline is lacking in this country. More and more children are ruling the house instead of the parents. Why is this you ask? It is because of the laws that are being passed in Congress that say you cannot hit your child. If a kid does wrong who is to say you cannot hit him/her for disciplinary reasons. If it goes beyond discipline then it is abuse but when your child can call the police for you just grabbing them, then there is something wrong.
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