Violence in Schools
Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. However, there are many possible ways we can stop all this violence in schools. Almost three-fourths of the United States teens are afraid of violent crime amongst their friends (Apfel 23). Violence in schools has become a big problem in today's society. With all the people being injured or killed in schools by guns ,Knives, bombs and other ammunitions, more and more people are getting more weapons to bring in to schools. According, to the survery taken after the in-school shootings nearly half of all males and one-third of all students including females said they could easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to (Glazer 14). The cause of violence can be blamed on many things but mainly on one thing is drugs and gangs. Now that more people are selling and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since they came around violence have been increasing steadily. The spread of gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of school youths (Glazer 14). Experts have also said that most violent conflic
Teachers are in as much danger of being killed or attacked, as kids are at school. The recent examples are the series of shooting which took place in 1998 started with columbine high school. The risk of a teacher being attacked by a student has doubled since 1956(Glazer 20). This is a lot considering that you don't hear about too many teacher attacks on the news but you do hear about teens being killed. Approximately 100 teachers have been assaulted annually in the past four school years (Glazer 8). Also last year in about six incidents which highlighted the newspapers about 25 students alongwith 5 teachers were killed due to high school shooting. Witkin, Gordon. "Kids Who Kill." U.S. News and World weapon in your house. keep it where it can't be found that easily. It has become very easy to obtain a gun. A survey of Baltimore public-schools students showed that the four most prevalent places to get guns are street corners, friends, drug dealers, and thieves (Gordon 29). And kids all over the world are getting guns from all these places but nobody is doing anything about it. It is very easy for someone to
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