What do you think about school violence? Do you think that they can be prevented?

Question

I don't think that they can be prevented as school shooters randomly do it. There are NO signs at all in most cases. I think tightening the security in school is ridiculous as most school shooters do it at random which serves no point. All it is doing is making the students act worried even more. They are normal people that just randomly do a school shooting.

Here's my source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#.22Profiling.22_school_shooters

What they should focus on is making the school system better for all students. If the school system was better, I don't think any student would want to do a school shooting. For example, like creating an inclusive school where students learn about tolerance.

Answer 1

i think a friendlier teaching staff would work. most teachers are in love with the popular sports kids and treat them like the best kids in the world when the unpopular kids are bullied by them. if there were understanding teachers that would look out for their students then there would be less problems.

Answer 2

I am a student and at least in my school tolerance is promoted to the extreme. School shootings are generally the result of depression and bullying. This might seem like an odd idea but I think that beginning at a young age, children should be educated about the effects of death on a personal level. If more teens were educated on a personal level about intense topics like death, they might not be as likely to cause it. My school and many other schools in the district have school based heath clinics provided by the county. They provide almost any kind of general medical care including prescriptions, birth control and counseling. The clinic cannot legally tell your parents that you have been there if you are over 15 so a lot of kids do use it. This makes excluded, depressed or bullied teens more likely to seek counseling and antidepressants to get help before it spirals out of control. I think that this is a good system that should be implemented nationwide.

Answer 3

It could be prevented if kids weren't pressured by the media and all. My school has to go through security checks every morning... so don't say that I don't know school violence.

I hate school fights. They are a waste of time and energy.

Look, I am not passing the blame on anything or anyone, but I do believe that Kids have the choice to stand for what they believe. It is time for kids to stop the violence for generations yet to come!

Answer 4

I stay involved in my children's lives. I can only say that perhaps staying close to your children and not letting them drift into oblivion might help. Many people seem to ignore the warnings brfore these events. Children are adults in training. We should not discount what they say as heresay just because we think our adult lives are more important or many of the other myriad reasons parents may have for allowing the drift to occur.

When I was a teen, I was unsupervised and I saw many things happen that I probably shouldn't have at that age. I also got insight into what it was to be an "adult" at a very early age. Wisdom is experience magnified by intelligence. Children are smarter, and wiser, than the media gives them credit for.

Bad parenting is the problem, but what to do about it? Do we have the government take our children from us because we as a whole a percieved as inadequate providers and teachers? What of us who are of able body and mind to do so? A test perhaps, much like the ones given to those who go into secret services and sensitive information carriers? 2000 question tests designed to see who is fit to be a parent and who is not? Judged by whom? It is not a simple problem.

Answer 5

The reason there is so much violence in schools is because of NCLB. One of the 'stipulations' of this law is that the schools will get more gov't funds for the less disclipline issues they have.
SO, this is why there is so much bullying,fighting and leading up to killing going on. All in the name of MONEY.
The schools want that money so they ignore the bullying, fighting, etc and this escalates into the killing.
Even though there IS bullying and disclipline problems going on in the schools, it is not being DOCUMENTED so the gov't won't know these things are going on. THIS is why the schools ignore the behavior, so there won't be any PROOF of it, so the gov't will give them MORE MONEY.
We pay these people their paychecks thru our taxes and this is what they do with it, they KILL THEM.

Answer 6

We are clinging to a new era of change that school discipline can't easily be imposed because of the changing culture and lifestyles brought about by new technologies Security will play an important rule to deter school violence than none at all..

Answer 7

If a little ones going to shoot up a college he can't stand there and element a gun at somebody for a number of seconds until eventually now pulling the set off, it isn't the wild west. and the final undertaking you like in a college shoot is bullets flying in the two guidelines, or worse you, yet another youngster with a gun eyeballing all and sundry asking "are they the shooter?"

Answer 8

i think even if there are no obvious signs that a school shooting will occur there are signs. its not like someone wakes up and says i'm gonna go shoot people at school today.

i think if kids were taught to accept the differences between people then there would be less fighting and kids could feel more accepted. it would probably lead to less school shootings.

Answer 9

Mandatory parent involvement. One of the biggest reasons things like this can happen is when the parents are not involved enough in their childrens' lives to be able to catch problems before they get out of hand.

Answer 10

the solution will be in love, compassion, attention and our society not creating people who are so upset like this. it is preventable. many countries have less of this. security will not help.