Saturday, December 12, 2009
Violence in school
This subject is a passion of mine for some reason. The National Dept of Education recently published its 2009 report on violence in America's school. Read the key findings on the first few pages (7-10 or v-viii). They are interesting. What is school safetly? So how safe is our school? How safe are the students and do they really feel safe while in school? What could the school do to make this a safe place to be?
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Well, our school may try to make it look like we are a safe and up to date with the latest security camera software and all that crap, but it doesn't work if you don't monitor it. Nothing goes punished unless if a student reports it, which is extremely seldom. I think that if the school actually had somebody actually watching the security cameras at all times, you would find out that there are a lot of disrespectful jerks running the halls of our school. The students that reciprocate the violence that other students are doing towards another student are safe, but what about the student being victimized here? I bet they don't feel safe, and they feel that if they report it, as soon as the student gets punished, they will just continue doing as they please once again. I think that instead of having the cameras being unmonitored by the "tech coordinator" and the "main office" when they don't have time to worry about that kind of crap the school should hire somebody or something where that is their job to watch the cameras in the halls. The secretaries and Mr. Lunstrum have other things to worry about.
I would say our school is a pretty safe place to be. We have a strict set of rules to follow, and nobody likes to be in saturday school. We also have cameras that allow our principle to look back on things that have happened to give the correct punishment. Although we do a lot to keep kids safe, I dont think that they can prevent everything.
All schools have some kind of violence in them, but some are just worse than others. I consider our school to have a safe environment for the students. Of coarse, there will always be the usual bullying and name calling going on behind the advisors backs. The new security cameras probably help somewhat but it's not going to make a huge impact, and change all the violence happening in our school.
A safe school is a place where students are able to feel safe at no matter what. In a safe school there would be no bullying. There are also security cameras and locked doors and fenced in play grounds and security checks at the door. I feel our school for the size of it takes pretty good precautions to make our school as safe as possible. Our school has quite a bit of security. The only way i feel our school isn't safe is the bullying that goes on. Some kids don't want to come to school because they don't feel safe because of another student or a group of students. The only way I feel our school could have better security is having security checks at the door, but not exactly for our size of school. It is understandable for larger schools, but I dont feel it as important to have that as our cameras. I don't know how or if it would even be possible to completely get rid of bullying in a school.
School is supposed to be a place where students can come to learn the very valuable subjects in life. When a student can't come to school because they are afraid, leads to the problem which you call 'Violence in Schools'. Honestly, in my opinion, I do believe that we have a very safe school enviroment. We have bullies and back stabbers and people who threaten, but we truely don't have anyone who I believe would harm our school. If security systems can pick up on peer pressure and other things like that, then by golly, go for it. We definitely don't have that much security or we'd have to wear name tags at all times, walk through metal detectors, have hall monitors. We're a school of about three-fifty, and I don't see a bomb threat anytime soon. Now if there was ever a person like that, we wouldn't stand a chance, since the only security we have is never watched. The cameras we've installed are rarely glanced at, and when they are no one really does anything. We could have it worse, but I think we're fine.
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