What is the probability a student will die from a fight from school?

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I was wondering what were the chances? I have a class debate tommrow involving "Student Fights" and I am gathering some data on the issue.

Answer 1

depends on what school. it is more likely for a student to die in a city school than one out in the country.

Answer 2

That's gonna depend on where you live. Here in KS it is about zero. All the killings here are drug related. So why are you doing your research for a debate at midnight Sunday night on Yahoo Answers? I am a grandma so it's my job to ask this kind of question I have a feeling you are screwed. LOL Good Luck and God Bless

Answer 3

Its probably way more likely that you WONT die in a fight at school than if you would. It all depends on the individual and their surroundings

Answer 4

not much chance

Answer 5

Here's on Violence in school

Since the Columbine school shootings, American schools have been plagued by new attacks and threats. These incidences and the resulting unrest in our schools, both public and private, have been reported in the mass media (ABC News, April 29, 2003) highlighting the growing tendency of American students to engage in interpersonal violence. Violence is a problem not only in urban and suburban schools but also in rural schools, with more adolescents and children being both perpetrators and victims (Chandras, 1999).

There are many interpretations and explanations about student violence (The Telegraph, 2002, 2005). According to research, factors such as family violence, violence in the community, and violence portrayed in the media incites students to commit violent acts (Maura, 1998). Easy access to guns greatly adds to the number of violent acts committed by students. Generally, three types of violence, which adolescents commit, are physical assaults, murders, and sexual assaults.

Generally, the perpetrators have been young, typically disgruntled, white males (there were some incidences of female students engaging in violent behaviors, Pennsylvania, March 7, 2001). U.S. Department of Education (2003) and Newsweek (King & Murr, 1998) listed a chronology of school-related shootings in recent years:

1. February 2, 1996: Barry Loukaitis, 14, killed a teacher and two fellow students in Moses Lake, Washington.

2. February 19, 1997: Evan Ramsey, 16, killed his school principal and a fellow student and wounded two in Bethel, Alaska.

3. October 1, 1997: In Pearl High School, Pearl, Mississippi, Luke Woodham, 16, killed his mother, his ex-girlfriend and another student. The shooting by Woodham was primarily aimed at a former girlfriend, but wider issues were blamed in the >manifesto=.

4. December 1, 1997: In Heath High School, Paducah, Kentucky, Police say Michael Carneal, 14, shot at a group of students, killing five and wounding three. He shot into a before prayer group. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

5. December 15, 1997: In Stamps, Arkansas, two students were wounded, Colt Todd age 14, was hiding in the woods shooting at people while coming to school.

6. March 24, 1998: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, killed five (four students and one teacher) on August 11, 1998, they were convicted of murder and sentenced to serve in a detention center until 18 or possibly 21 years of age.

7. April 24, 1998: Andrew Wurst, 14, opened fire at a school dance in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, killing a teacher and wounding three students. Motivation is unclear.

8. May 19, 1998: In Fayetteville, Tennessee, Jacob Davis, 18, killed a classmate in a parking lot of his high school three days before graduation. The victim was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old honor student Jacob Davis.

9. May 21, 1998: In Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel, 15-year-old freshman, opened gunfire in the cafeteria with a rifle. He killed two students and wounded 27 other students (plus two parents). The shootings ended only when another student tackled Kinkel as he attempted to reload. Kinkel was expelled from school for having a stolen pistol in his locker. He murdered his parents and the next day he went on a rampage in his school. His parents were both teachers. On November 10, 1999, Kip Kinkel was sentenced to 111 years in prison despite documented schizophrenia.

10. April 20, 1999: In Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened gunfire in Columbine High School killing one teacher, 12 students and wounding 23 other students. They were teased by jocks and were labeled the ATrench Coat Mafia.@ Both committed suicide.

11. May 20, 1999: Thomas J. Solomon, 15, Sophomore, opened gunfire in Heritage High School, Conyers, Georgia, wounding six students. He was taking antidepressant drugs (Ritalin) and broke up with his girl friend.

12. November 19, 1999, Deming, New Mexico: Victor Cordova Jr., 12, fired one shot into the lobby of Deming Middle School and hit Araceli Tena, 13, in the back of the head. She died the next day.

13. December 6, 1999, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma: Seventh-grader, Seth Trickey was a religious, straight-A student. He came to school, stood under a tree, pulled out his father=s 9-mm semiautomatic handgun and fired at least 15 rounds into a group of classmates. Four were wounded.

14. February 29, 2000, Mount Morris Township, Michigan: A six-year-old boy, whose identity has not been released, left the crack house where he lived and went to school at Theo J. Buell Elementary. He called out to fellow first-grader Kayla Rolland, AI don=t like you!@ ASo?@ she said. The boy swung around and shot her with the loaded .32 semiautomatic handgun he had taken from home. Kayla died soon afterward.

15. May 18, 2000, Millbrae, California: A 17-year-old senior at Mills High School, whose identity has not been released, was arrested after another student reported being threatened with a gun. They found an arsenal of 15 guns, rifles, knives and ammunition at the boy=s home, all apparently belonging to his father.

16. May 26, 2000, Lake Worth, Florida: Nathaniel Brazill, 13, was sent home for throwing water balloons. Police said that he returned with a .25-cal. semiautomatic handgun, went into an English class and killed teacher Barry Grunow, 35.

17. February 11, 2001, Palm Harbor, Florida: Scott McClain, a 14-year-old eighth-grader, wrote a detailed e-mail to at least one friend describing his plans to make a bomb and possibly target a specific teacher at Palm Harbor Middle School. The friend=s mother alerted Sheriff=s deputies, who said they found a partly assembled bomb in McClain=s bedroom that would have had a Akill radius@ of 15 feet.

18. February 14, 2001, Elmira, New York: Jeremy Getman, a 18-year-old senior, passed a disturbing note to a friend, who alerted authorities. A police officer found Getman in Southside High School=s cafeteria, reportedly with a .22-cal. Ruger semiautomatic and a duffel bag containing 18 bombs and a sawed-off shotgun. An additional eight bombs were found in his home.

19. March 5, 2001, Santee, California: Charles Andrew Williams, 15, opened fire from a bathroom at Santana High, killing two and wounding 13.

20. March 7, 2001, Williamsport, Pennsylvania: Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, was threatened and teased mercilessly at her old school in Jersey Shore and transferred the previous spring to Bishop Neumann, a small Roman Catholic school. There she took her father=s revolver into the cafeteria and shot Kimberly Marchese in the shoulder. Bush was reportedly still being teased and was depressed.

21 March 7, 2001, Twenty-nine Palms, California: Cori Aragon was one of 16 students at Monument High School in the Mojave Desert to discover that her name was on the hit list of two 17-year-old boys arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and civil rights violations. Police said that they found a rifle in one home, the hit list in the other.

22. March 23, 2001, El Cajon, California: A 18-year-old student, Jason Hoffman, opened gunfire at Granite Hills High School, wounding four others before he was shot by a campus police officer. In all, 10 people were injured in the afternoon shootout.

23. January 15, 2002, Martin Luther King Jr. High School, Manhattan, New York: Vincent Rodriguez, 18, was charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault. Rodriguez shot Andre Wilkins, aged 18, and Andrel Napper, aged 17. Police report the shooting was due to teasing of his girlfriend and because they >pulled a bandanna off her head=.

24. January 16, 2002, Appalachian School of Law, Grundy, Virginia: A 42-year-old Peter Odighizuma, a naturalized citizen from Nigeria, shot and killed Dean L. Anthony Sutin and Professor Thomas Balckwell in their offices. Then, he went down into a common area and fired upon a crowd of students injuring three students. Reports claim Odighizuma had been suspended from school earlier Wednesday and had a history of mental instabilities that school officials were aware of.

25. October 29, 2002, University of Arizona School of Nursing, Tucson: Robert Flores, Jr., age 41, walked into a classroom and killed three nursing professors and then committed suicide. The reason for killing was that he was told that he could not take the midterm examination. Flores suffered from depression.

26. April 14, 2003, John McDonogh High School, New Orleans, Louisiana: Four gang members, Tyrone Crump (17), Herbert Everett (18), Michelle Fulton (17), and Larry Moses (19), entered the gymnasium and two of the gang members opened fire. The result was that Jonathan Williams dead at the scene and two girls were wounded. These attackers never attended the school (Fox News, April 14, 2003).

27. April 24, 2003, Red Lion Junior High School, Red Lion, Pennsylvania: James Sheet, age 14, shot and killed the Principal, Eugene Segro, 51 years old and then killed himself (ABC News, 2003).

28. In March 21, 2005, Red Lake Senior High School, Red Lake, Minnesota: Jeff Weiss, 16, fatally shot five students, a teacher and a security guard before killing himself (Pioneer Press, 2005).

These tragedies prompt inescapable questions: What is the cause of this disturbing trend? How does one reach that point? What is happening in American families and the larger society to cause adolescents to resort to violence? What had the parents and school personnel done or not done, to add their schools to the growing list of communities where adolescent anger turned schools into battlegrounds? It is difficult to find specific answers to these questions.

After studying the psychological characteristics and backgrounds of these adolescents, the following profile was constructed and may represent the characteristics of school shooters:

1. Male Caucasian;

2. Lonely and feel rejected by others;

3. Angry toward someone or something;

4. Lack positive relationships and communication in school and family;

5. Obsessions with violent acts;

6. Obsessions with guns and other weapons;

7. Substance abuse;

8. Bullied and demeaned by other students;

9. Family pathology (violent home life, parental neglect, insecurity, etc.);

10. Depression;

11. May show delusion of grandeur or other mental illness;

Prevention Strategies

Schools may use outreach, advocacy and consultation services in school violence prevention. In outreach, counselors seek out those who fit the profile and assist them to resolve their problems before violence occurs. Outreach also utilizes school and community professionals of various backgrounds for help with at-risk populations. In advocacy, the counselor acts as an emissary for the student and asks the assistance of community leaders for providing necessary funds or other assistance for school projects to curb violence. As an advocate, the counselor works with teachers, administrators, school board members, community leaders, students and others to manage programs directed at curbing school violence (Smaby & Daugherty, 1995). Another strategy that could be utilized in school is crisis management. It involves strategies of close surveillance of students in schools. The strategies may include installing metal detectors, communicating trouble spots on campus, telephone Ahot lines@ to report crisis situations, hiring guards to supervise hallways, and strictly enforcing laws for criminal acts on campus. Crisis management solutions have preventive effects (Richtig, & Homak, 2003; Wolfe, 1995).

Schools are encouraged to use mediation on their campuses between students and school personnel. School personnel educate students to resolve conflicts and disputes through mediation (Carlson & Lewis, 1993; Elias, 1998).

Conflict resolution skills training programs brought results and aimed at peer mediation, conflict resolution and anger management. It may include violence prevention curriculum and promotion of nonviolence for adolescents (Orr, 2001).

Conclusion

In light of the increasing school violence, counselors, teachers and other school personnel should be ready and able to meet crises and prevent when they occur in schools. A trusting relationship between counselors and students will help curb school violence. Schools should develop nonviolent environments in which students and school personnel can settle differences through discussion, mediation, and compromise. Of course, they need the cooperation and assistance from families and community leaders.

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