Peace and Conflict Resolution (Education) In the article called Violent hallways: is your child’s school safe? Andrea Atkins brings out one of the most important problems of our time. In the article she writes about the causes, the current situation in public schools and the alternative ways to solve the problem. The writer gives the helpful hints not only to the organizations that are responsible for eliminating violence in schools, but also to the parents and children themselves. According to the article, the statistics shows that 100,000 guns are transported to the school every day. Besides, during each year three million crimes take place near or inside of public schools. As a result, there are numerous examples of new safety rules that were made for elimination of hiding weapons or for constraining excess interaction between the students.
For example, in some school in Washington State there are no more lockers; in California some require transparent backpacks; some another forbids handshakes between the teams. And indeed, such problem existed along ago; it exists nowadays and will probably exist for a long time in the future. As every conflict, school violence also has its own causes and ways of solution. School violence is caused by the number of things. Usually people cannot predict the conflict, because there are way too many origins of it. Each person is very unique and each one has his own motives and reasons for the actions he performs. According to the article by Andrea Atkins, children violence in schools usually has two major causes.
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Violence in Schools Violence among youth, especially in schools, is one of American society's most pressing concerns. It is also a source of controversy. While no recent nationwide study of the real extent of youth violence is available, small-scale and regional studies indicate that youth violence is increasing, at least slightly. In addition, youth, like adults, are now more frequently using ...
The first one is the increase in number of violence in movies and television that children watch. The examination of this educational conflict, that was made by the American Psychological Association, reports that American children see about eight thousand murders on the television and around one 100,000 of other violent performances before they start attending junior high school.The second cause explains that children violence may appear as a result of poverty. Indeed, the problem of poverty is strongly connected with violence. Poor people usually are angrier and see no positivism or perspective in the future. Beside those two causes there are also a number of people that simply do not know what could be the inferences of some violent actions they perform. They either do not think it is important enough to think about it and to fight with it, or think that something like that would never happen with them.
However, these kinds of people are very wrong about their convictions. The problem of the children violence in schools is considered one of the most important and serious problems of our time. Therefore, experts agree that every single school should pay precise attention to this educational conflict particularly. In the article Andrea Atkins reminds that there are a number of ways to prevent the violent conflicts among children in schools. The one may find some these methods in the neighborhood school. For example, some schools from time to time do locker searches in order to find out if there are any weapons or drugs; the others invite parent supervisors to add the number of adults in school.
Many schools also enforce the dress code and organize some support group so children can talk about their phobias and the possible ways to overcome their problems. Besides, the problem is very delicate and needs personal approach to each child. Therefore, it is very important that parents are being involved. Sometimes, parents are the only people that can make any difference and affect the actions and influence the thoughts of their child. Andrea Atkins believes that first of all it would be a good idea for parents to find out some safety information in the school their child attends and find out about the violence incident that took place in the near past. Plus, it is very important to explain children that nobody is willing to attack them. Therefore, there is no point in assaulting the others in the means of protection. According to Andrea Atkins, parents should confine television, extend their childs social life, and make sure that any weapon is out of childrens reach.
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School Violence Parents send their kids off to school everyday hoping that their children will make it home. The school system today is not what it was like fifty years ago, teachers would students for talking too much or chewing gum, but today teachers have to wonder if they are going to get shot for giving a kid a bad grade. Now that might be a little ex aerated but the safety of everyone in a ...
They should also teach their child how to overcome the problems themselves and discuss possible ways of solving with them. However, it is hard to know and predict all the possible influences a child handles; and, therefore, it is almost impossible to foresee the actions he or she performs. The educational conflict of violence in schools should concern in the first place the adults that are responsible for their kids. One of the most important things to do is to make sure that the kid is raised in the atmosphere of respect to the others and valuing the others life. Bibliography Atkins A. Violent hallways: is your child’s school safe? available at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1041/is_n11 _v72/ai_15897721.
