Summary:
Essay examines crime in the schools and ways to prevent further violence in them. Provides charateristics of children most likely to commit crimes, warning signs for educators and parents, as well as policies that could ultimately result in less violence in schools.
Crime and Schools: The inside look of what's going on
As a society, how should we respond to violence taking place at schools? How do we respond to the traumatic events of the Columbine shooting and the school killing in Colorado? We feel impotent and concerned and aware that this is a situation that needs immediate attention. Violent behavior that occurs in schools today is constantly changing and increasing.
On the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a day does not go by without talking of the violence coming into schools from the streets. Patrick O'Donnell, a reporter for the Plain Dealer wrote a story on a high school in Strongsville where the school virtually shut down classes due to Internet threats of violence made on the school by an 18-year-old boy. Though the student is charged with misdemeanor counts.....
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