What do you feel is causing the violence in the American schools to escalate?

Question

I live in Minnesota. When I turn on the news each evening and in the morning I hear of another bomb threat in our schools around here. Not everyday, but enough to make me wonder, What's going on with our kids these days? School should be a fun place to go, see your friends and learn. Our kids shouldn't have to worry about another student threatening to kill them.

I know there has always been some sort of gang rivalry and fighting, but this is going beyond that. And I feel to help solve a problem one must seek out the root of that problem and find a way to get rid of it.

Kids have a right to feel safe when they go to school.

Answer 1

You are speaking of things that have so many complexities -- it would literally take a thesis to start on the subject !!
Suffice to say--and boiled to a few simple entries into the mix :
A social order that has put their kids in front of the television to do their raising work---
A hard-line set of role models that glorify the tough guy-- promiscuous female scenario
Non-existant supervision by parents too busy filling their own personal time with all the diversions of life (of course with all the absolutely perfect reasonings behind this) ---Add to this scene the parental profile that says one thing but lives an entirely different thing---
The double standards of the social order and the government inputs---these very blatant dicotomies are read very rapidly by young people as being false in nature and therefore loose their respect and belief
Add to all of this---the ENORMOUS amount of attention placed on BEING SOMEONE by the media and the society at large----and the people that the society deems as being important---many are in that position simply because they ARE completely counter to the social moral standards
Then there is the "self esteem at any price" crowd that underscores young people's off center behavior with praise of their being "an individual"-----passing them on to higher grades when they definately haven't made the grade-- and constantly "talking it out" with them when the course of action in a lot of cases has gone FAR BEYOND TALK

These are but a few of the reasonings within the subject that you have brought up--- long from being anything more than a quick sketch---but hopefully you get my drift---------it amazes me that it isn't worse than it actually is !!!

Answer 2

in the mid-20th centuries, scoolds started getting bigger and bigger. a youth society of cliques and peer pressure evolved in a way that was impossible with smaller schools.

for decades that was balanced by control mechanisms. School administrators kept authority with parental and community support. Now that parents and the community have removed repercussions off-campus, schools are limited in how they can attempt disipline. The end result is none - and the youth-controlled society is unchecked as the power clique pushes against the outcasts, and the outcasts push back - with weapons.

The short-term solution is to return to small schools.

The long-term probelm is to address society, and our approach to education and child-rearing.

Answer 3

So many kids don't have any restrictions placed on them from parents who love and care about them.

So many laws have been written to "protect" our kids from abuse, but actually ties the hands of those in the schools who would gain some order over the classroom.

God has been removed from the US classrooms, for fear of offending a few atheist.

No structure = no good behavior. Actually, the kids are trying to get our attention.

kiwi

Answer 4

God is not in those schools. God is not in the homes of the involved children. God is in my daughter's school and in the homes of all the children who go there. There's never been a problem with violence, rape, sexual activity, gang rivalry, teachers having sex with students, kids bringing guns to school, or even knives.

Either we can arrange for God to be allowed back in to the public schools, or the problems will continue. I'm not trying to be pessimistic - it's a very simple equation. America was blessed by God while America followed God. America is not following God now.

Answer 5

it truly is the united states of united statesa. and we are entitled to positioned on the hues of our flag, and fly our flag. in the journey that they prefer to positioned on the hues of Mexico, or fly the flag of Mexico... Get the h ell out and bypass to Mexico. yet another effective best of party of what occurs at the same time as our borders are not secured and individuals from different international places are allowed to go back illegally, and teach their delight of stated international places. practice their way of existence fairly of melting into U.S. way of existence. at the same time as U.S. voters get dealt with as if they're the perpetrators. And Cinco de mayo is a made up vacation that does no longer exist except to assuage the Hispanics who truly recognize no longer something of Mexico's actual independence day.

Answer 6

parents need to get a better grip on their kids. i know there are alot a parents that try to do as much as they can but sometimes that is not enough. alot of these kids who do those things need psychological help and some parents arent making the effort or think they dont need that help but they do.

Answer 7

The stupidly decided, legalisation of guns?

Answer 8

Fear and pressure, they lash out the best they know how.

Answer 9

parents not rasing their kids right