KIDS VS. KIDSThe average child witnesses eight thousand murders and one hundred thousand acts of violence by the time he or she finishes elementary school. In the past fifteen years school violence has become a clear but present danger. It used to be children were involved in fistfights, or other types of squabbles.
They may have received a black eye or bloody nose. Now they are armed with not fists but sawed off shotguns and malice. This is a serious issue that needs to be observed and resolved. These need to be taken in to consideration, home environment, society, and school policy. These are the key issues that are causing children to act out so violently. In the early eighties we were not having the problems with school shootings that are happening now.
Home environment is the big factor that’s been children are for most of their life; the influences that come from here are powerful. Hopefully parents are teaching their children to be good people, to have compassion for others, but in some cases this is not happening. Society has evolved in the past fifteen years. Things are a little different. More mothers were at home raising their children and not out in the workplace. The Internet was not available to the population until 1989-1990.
With out this being monitored for students it could be very harmful. The Internet is full of wonderful information, but also potentially dangerous material. School policy was different because they were not having such violent problems. There were problems in schools in the eighties but not so many, so often. From nineteen eighty eight to nineteen ninety-two the homicide rate increased by fifty percent, assault by forty eight percent, robbery, forty nine percent and rape fifteen percent. At these rapid increasements they crept into schools with a bang.
The average home in the nineties is, both parents working forty hours a week, tired and might not be so observant to what their children are doing and learning. The home environment is so important and vital to the solving of this problem. The Internet is available at home, or in most libraries. This needs to monitored especially for younger users.
In hope to help eliminate the shootings most schools in the U. S. have adopted the zero tolerance policy. The zero tolerance policy is helpful in keeping order and does not tolerate much else. The school will not hesitate to expel, suspend, or other serious punishment that the particular school has for specific rule, if broken.
Schools are indeed different today then they were in nineteen eighty. Children need to learn how to solve their problems peacefully because this violence will not work to their advantage. It will only make their life more complicated. This generation has been brought up on video games and television, but teachers must still strive to make learning fun and a good experience.
Americans need to think of ways to let their child have a little freedom but also keep tabs on what they are doing good and bad, this is what will help schools.
