Is so, why? If not, why not?
2007-10-23 14:30:32 · 28 answers · asked by Loosid 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Define "more unsafe". Why don't you provide some real stats, some evidence, rather than rehashed opinions. More deaths related to schools? I don't know, it seems like everything violent makes the headlines now.
Someone provide some stats.
Pastor Art: G*d fobid someone think outside of the hive.
(Sorry, I misunderstood what you typed.)
James O: You should link us to the statistics. "Look at the statitics." Where?
2007-10-23 14:39:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ehh....a little sketchy. What with the Civil Rights movement in the 60s and the 70s Vietnam Protests, that's a little hard to say. I can say this though, at least when you went to school in the 60s and 70s you knew that something like that could happen, but now a days you never know when some disturbed person is going to go on a mass killing spree. Also, younger children in elementary schools and high schools are getting in on the act, making all schools, not necessarily universities, prime targets for criminal activities.
2007-10-23 14:54:59 · answer #2 · answered by Mrs. CT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that Public Schools have been equally as violent over the past2 20 to 30 years. Teenagers were still smoking, dealing drugs, getting into schoolyard fights, and much, much worse. I think what alters our perception is that there's a "no tolerance" act going around schools, where any kid who gets into a schoolyard fist fight gets the police called on him, any kid who decides to smoke a butt gets fined.
It's not that teenagers are more violent, it's that we make it more publicly aware and advertised when children are violent, making it seem like an epidemic, blaming video games, a sudden "rage" among adolescents.
It simply isn't true - kids get into fights, kids smoke, kids do drugs, kids have sex, and different cliques will always fight and bicker - "gangs" are what they're called now, but it was pretty much the same when you were all kids - don't you remember the school yard fights, broken noses, football and other sports fight disputes?
It just wasn't publicly announced as "intolerable" - it was something kids just did..
2007-10-23 14:37:28 · answer #3 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Define the location of "our" public schools. There IS a world outside of America. Or do you just mean in general?
Put it into context. A school in Croatia today would be MORE safe now that the country is trying to rebuild after war. A school in a US state where gun laws are not enforced and there is more access to guns would be less safe.
Or, in some countries, violence is about the same.
2007-10-23 14:38:49 · answer #4 · answered by reginachick22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you kidding..The most I had to worry about when I went to school was, did my hair look alright and would I get an A on my paper...There were no guns,,no knives,,,girls did not have sex in High School,,,except for the one or two and everybody knew who they were and the girls stayed away from them...we didn't want a bad reputation. Very seldom did a girl come up a pregnant. It was a shame to have sex without marriage..we believed it...and so did the boys,,,even if they did try....we had very little pressure to drink....I don't remember one single person in my High School,,,drinking alcohol...we had fights but they were the regular school yard kind....not three on one and kicking in the head....School shooting just didn't happen..I would be terrified to go to school today. Oh, I almost forgot...no drugs were around our High School and no AIDS or STDs...never heard of them back then...Life was good...
2007-10-23 14:47:10 · answer #5 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
20-30 years ago you didn't have freaks toting illegal firearms to school to kill the kids they didn't like. So, yes, they are definitely more unsafe than they were 20-30 years ago.
2007-10-23 18:09:16 · answer #6 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. 20-30 years ago, the students didn't go around shooting each other, knifing each other. Pot was the worst drug out there and no one killed anyone for it.
30 years ago, I didn't have to walk through a metal detector to get into school.
2007-10-23 14:40:21 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i was in high school (wayyy back in the '70's) we had a fad...guys wearing hunting knives in a belt sheath...usually a folding knife of some kind...1/4 of the school was at least occasionally getting high or drinking after school, and we didn't have any problems with violence, aside from the occasional fistfight after a football game...on any given day during hunting season, you could find at least a dozen or so rifles or shotguns in student vehicles-a lot of kids would hunt right before or after school...no one raised a fuss, although i'm sure there must have been some kind of prohibition against it...no shootings, either...so YOU tell ME...
2007-10-23 15:00:59 · answer #8 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH YES...my daughter-in-law is a special education teacher...and she was held at knife point by a punk for 15 minutes...my son won't even let her teach anymore...and this is the second incident that has happened in less than one yr...
Children today are NOT the same as they where when I was a child...I have NO idea where this generation is going.!!
2007-10-23 14:36:44 · answer #9 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, due to the recent shootings, weapons being brought in and a huge increase in drugs running rampant in the school I would have to say yes. As for why there is a huge multitude of reasons anywhere from a failure of a parent or to much watching Romper Stomper who knows exactally it varies from case to case from city to city and from person to person.
2007-10-23 14:33:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋