How can we prevent violence in schools?

School violence can be defined as any type of wrong activity or harm done by students against classmates and teacher. Putting psychological pressure on the students can have them start doing mischievous behavior that lead to school violence. In order to prevent such behavior teachers and parents need to take certain measures and provide proper guidance and support to the children.

There are various reasons can lead students to become violent in school. For instance being in poverty, family breakdown, domestic violence, child abuse, drug culture, immigration from places where education is less valued, violent imagery, high parental expectations and competitiveness to name a few reasons of why they act out in violence. Schools have responded in many different ways to prevent violence from occurring. Some ways they have responded include alternative programs, suspension, expulsion, locker searches, metal detectors, mentoring programs, closed lunches, dress codes, support groups, security guards. With these ways of preventing violence it all depends on the schools budget of course and which solution depends on how severe the type of violence is. I think anyway in preventing violence in the schools is the way to go because no one in their right mind would think it’s okay to have violence in their child’s school. I get some measures are more intense than others, but isn’t it worth it in the end with your children safe from harm?

There are other preventive measures for school violence. Students with a violent attitude can be reduced if certain measures were being used. For students who have this attitude most are from lack of love and affection from parent, teacher or both and tend to become violent. So the parent and teacher need to provide proper affection to that particular student. If the parents of a student are fighting in front of them can lead to the student acting out because of what they see at home. So parents should avoid fighting in front of their children. When a student becomes frustrated because of some sort of difficulty that they can not solve the teachers and/or parents can prevent violence by giving full guidance through their difficulties with the problem. Effective counseling can help with student’s violent behaviors and having parents monitor what their child is playing or watching can help prevent violence in school as well. Parents need to keep an eye on what their child is doing and give them attention because not knowing and neglecting their child can lead to a bad impact on them. Also, by having guards checking bags and lockers as well as taking strict actions with students who are showing violence in the school can help decrease violence. With all these various ways of preventing school violence hopefully one day this will be something of the past and students will not become violent while in school!

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