Problems in schools are a very prevalent issue in today's society; school violence is on the rise with other issues such as dr

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Violence in Schools

In The National Center for Education Statistics’ Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2000 T.R. Canady (2001) “indicates that 12-18 year olds were the victims of 2.7 MILLION school crimes in 1998, including 252,700 non-fatal serious violent crimes.” Even after Columbine, the highly publicized school shooting, violence in schools is still going strong with in a place where the last thing on the kids’ minds should be. They, the adults,” have tried to resolve these problems by using force and fear to control these kids. Problems in schools are on the rise with other issues such as violence, drug and teen pregnancy. To solve this growing problem we need to first address what is the root cause of this behavior. Kids now days are neglected by parents left at home watching TV, while the parents are working. The kids observe so much polluted material on the television it almost seems casual when they do such hideous acts which is repeated over time. Kids are SO desensitized from the things they see on TV, video games, movies. Kids tend to imitate what they see exposing them to violence before they can understand it doesn’t help them when the parents are not there to watch over them.

Especially with the moral decay of our society, people act without regard for others, kids having babies, fatherless families, unsupervised and unwanted children don’t always get the necessary attention they need to function acceptably in our society. However, all parts involved with schools are making a move to try and stop the violence and problems within schools which includes the parents, the government/police, and the administrative office at schools with the addition of kids who prevent such disasters from happening.  

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In the studies conducted by Leonard Eron, Ph.D., and his associates at the University of Illinois, APA (2005)” found that children who watched many hours of TV violence when they were in elementary school tended to also show a higher level of aggressive behavior when they became teenagers. By observing these youngsters until they were 30 years old, Dr. Eron found that the ones who'd watched a lot of TV when they were eight years old were more likely to be arrested and prosecuted for criminal acts as adults.” For the entire crisis’ that happened at a school the “TV” ...

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