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Defeating School Violence - Shalini Saxena
Published in 2016 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
29 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010
Copyright © 2016 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
First Edition
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Furgang, Kathy.
Defeating school violence / Kathy Furgang. — First edition.
pages cm. — (Effective survival strategies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4994-6149-7 (library bound)
1. School violence—Prevention—Juvenile literature. I. Title.
LB3013.3.F85 2016
371.7’82--dc23
2015021639
For many of the images in this book, the people photographed are models. The depictions do not imply actual situations or events.
Manufactured in China
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
WHAT COUNTS AS SCHOOL VIOLENCE?
CHAPTER 2
BUT WHY?
CHAPTER 3
ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER 4
WARNING SIGNS
CHAPTER 5
GETTING SUPPORT
CHAPTER 6
MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR OTHERS
GLOSSARY
FOR MORE INFORMATION
FOR FURTHER READING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Introduction
It seems that the nightly news is filled with example upon example of violence in schools all across North America. In October 2014, freshman Jaylen Fryberg opened fire on five people in his school cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington. He then turned the gun on himself and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. One victim died at the scene, while three more later died of their wounds in the hospital.
School violence is not limited only to high schools. School shootings have occurred in schools where students as young as six years old have been affected. On December 14, 2012, the world stood in horror as news spread about a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The twenty-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza, killed twenty children who were just six and seven years old, along with six adults, before turning the gun on himself. A total of twenty-eight people were killed.
Shootings or instances that end in death are not the only types of school violence. Bullying and fights in hallways, in school-yards, or on buses are also examples of violence that have made our schools unsafe. Gang violence in middle schools and high schools contributes to the problem. Some violence starts online. Electronic aggression in the form of cyberbullying and threats can make its way into schools, where the problem is escalated into face-to-face aggression and violence.
Community members grieve by a memorial for the victims of a high school shooting in Marysville, Washington, in October 2014. This is just one of the many tragic examples of school violence.
What drives people to violence against classmates and themselves? Are these senseless killings and attacks just part of the new normal
in schools? Sadly, school violence is not a new phenomenon. Recorded instances of student-initiated school violence date back to the 1800s. The facts show that inner city schools may have more incidences of violence, but no school or town is immune to the problem. There can be violence and even death at schools in urban, suburban, and rural areas alike.
So what can people do to stop the violence? Are there ways to make schools a safe place for everyone? Some schools have implemented metal detectors to check that students have no weapons on them when they enter the school, but do such actions really make