Prevent School Violence
At 11:21 a.m. Mountain Time on April 20, 1999, the Jefferson County Communications Center of the Sheriff's Office received a total of five calls from local residents living near Columbine High School, located within Jefferson County, Colorado. It is at this time, as reported by eye witnesses and the press, that at least two armed people entered the southeast Columbine High School parking lot. They reportedly threw a few devices that exploded in the parking lot, and shot at the school. A mass exodus of at least 1,500 students fled the school when the shooting began, while others hid in classrooms within the school for hours. The assailants stalked the halls early on in the shooting, blasting away innocent people. In upwards of thirty students were terrorized by the shooters in the large library of the school, with nearly a dozen killed in cold blood. "I heard maybe 50, 60 shots in the library and they chucked four to five pipe bombs in the room," said student Evan Todd. Fourteen students, including the shooters themselves, and one teacher, died during the attack; a total of 15 deaths. About 23 students and faculty were seriously injured.(Luzadder, Dan; Vaughan, Kevin) Could this have been avioded?
a class room, do you worry about your him or her? No probably not, there in the care of an qualified educated person. They should be safe from outside danger, but inside is another matter. It happens quite a bit in our classrooms, even with the teachers present. Children harassing children, teasing each other, hurting each other. Yet, the teachers seem no to notice it going on in there school. I see these specials on the news about High Schoolers beating up each other in there school cafeteria , and I wonder, where were the teachers. Did they all just magically disappear? Why with all the security we spend money on, we still have these cases of school violence getting out hand. Though most of the school violence is not as extreme as with Columbine, many have the potential of becoming just as big and just as violent. I believe that many of these violent events could have been prevented with the interference of teachers, in schools. In the case of Columbine, and other school shootings, these were contrived by students who felt like they were being ignored by teachers and were receiving constant abuse from other students. They couldn't take it anymore and got a gun. What can we do? What would happen, while most schools only collect data about negative results--start tracking positive outcomes . This has produced a change in Maryland's Montgomery County. Last year, in just four months, school officials reported more than 1,500 incidents of successful prevention and intervention efforts that helped students before anyone
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