School Violence

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This paper looks at reasons why school violence is so prevalent and cites reasons, such as racial tensions, bullying, easy access to firearms, unstable home lives and increased crime rate. It explains that school violence is a crucial problem facing children today. It is imperative to not only find ways to reduce the violence, but to implement them as well. The paper discusses some preventative measures and states that it is up to the adults to protect future generations and provide them with a safe learning environment.

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"Although deaths from violence are rare in schools, there are some facilities that have a serious problem with violence, creating fear for the staff, students and their parents. This fear can prevent students from performing well academically since it increases the amount of stress they are under and in many cases increases truancy."

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