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    Although parents send their child to school every day to learn, they often come across school violence dealing with bullying, weapons, and threats. School violence has become a serious problem in recent decades throughout many countries. It deals with violence between not only school students, but also attacks by students on school staff. It all began with the Pontiac Rebellion of July 1764. 1927 Andrew Kehoe set bombs off at school in Bath, Michigan. In 1959, Paul Orgeron set off a bomb at a playground

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    School violence is widely held to have become a serious problem in recent decades in many states, especially where weapons such as guns or knives are involved. Depression, home environment, and problems with teachers and students can become a major role in school violence. Depression can lead to someone wanting to hurt others. It gives the person a high that sometimes they do not feel. People that are depressed act out and put their emotions on other people. Depression can make a person

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    Violence in Public Schools Essay

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    The word violence is defined as, “an intense, turbulent or furious and often destructive action, force or exertion of physical strength so as to injure or abuse” (Webster 1316). Associating that term with the safety of our children within a public school setting will bring about an immediate reaction to discover what is root of the problem and what, as a society, can we do to prevent this behavior in the future. Violence in public schools is a growing concern for parents, teachers, faculty and

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    School Violence Violence in schools has spread rapidly throughout the nation and has caused many difficulties and fear among students, families, teachers and staff, and residents of the areas afflicted by the crimes. Many believe that school violence is only very recent occurrence, but this is untrue. It is easy for people to forget that there was life before the internet and many crimes were not publicly known as they are today. The speed in which the internet and cable television spread

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    Violence is defined as using physical force and abuse to harm or even infact kill someone. Violence is the common interaction most people would see on a daily basis which is very disappointing to most. Most commonly the violence is among pre teenagers and teenagers who have not yet matured. We should increment safety measures to help students who want to receive an education but not to harshly. The causes are bullying happening around schools, students attitudes toward school and peer pressure to

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    School Violence Response

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    The responses of school violence and associated with victimization. Social withdrawal often stems from depression, rejection, or the lack of confidence. Feeling of being alone might result from going through a divorce. Excessive feelings of rejection in the process of growing up, an in the course of adolescent development, many young people experience emotionally painful rejection. Feelings of being picked on and persecute when youth feels constantly picked on, teased, bullied, singled out for ridicule

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    Violence in American schools is dramatically increasing every day at an alarming rate. Whether it is a generic fistfight between students, or a horrific school shooting, we hear about some form of violence occurring in American schools nearly every day, including in our own local schools, such as my school, the Altoona Area Junior High School. This kind of behavior in our school, AAJHS, is obviously a major safety hazard. In an attempt to lessen this violence and protect students, principals should

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    The starting point of violence takes place in communities and at home--not at school. Youth take what they hear and see at home and in their communities to school. The environment in some communities and households are positive and the presences of protective factors outweigh the high risk factors. However, there are communities and households where there is a lack of informal social control and high risk factors exist more than protective factors--, which affect youth in a negative manner.

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    Speech 131- T/TH 7:30 am Section 33282 Courtney Mathis ID # 2899247 Why does school violence have such of an effect on our society today? School violence is the intentional use of physical force or power, group or community, with the behavior likely to cause physical or psychological harm. Most school violence start from differences between teenagers. Like for instance about some weeks ago this girl named Amy Joyner died over this boy. The girls that jumped her was mad that she was dating

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    Gun Violence In Schools

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    The issue of gun violence in schools has been a critical issue on the forefront of national politics in the previous years. There have been way too many school shootings in the United States and even in other countries. Governments are trying to come up with strategic solutions to fix this major issue. Many politicians and human rights activists have been advocating for better gun control and better ways to keep students more protected in schools. Some people believe that school faculty should be

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