School Violence
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The spread of violence in schools in the United States is a matter of grave national concern. Specific crimes and discipline issues threaten the learning environment and badly effect the students, school employees and the public at large. Although legislation exists for the prevention of crime and violence in schools, like the safe and drug-free schools and communities act of 1994, however, the biggest problem in our schools is violence.
What are the factors contributing to violence in schools? Drugs and firearms! No matter how good a faculty or a curriculum a school has, until and unless we provide a learning environment free of violence all quality improvement efforts go in vain. Appropriate and effective measures have to be taken to tackle this serious issue in order to achieve the objective of good learning for students. We know that majority of students have access to guns and other weapons. How they can afford to buy these weapons? Through drugs!..