Please do not copy and just change the articles to your own words, or I will deny your
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Read the textbook that I give you at the bottom first
-Please thoroughly answer the following questions:
Why does the public have the perception that school violence is on the increase?
Do you agree with zero-tolerance programs? Why?
What can school administrators do to help ensure that schools are safe?
How can the general public help?
-Write a paper about your answer of these questions
-The content should be no less than 1 page (no cover page, include introduction, 1-2
paragraphs that present opinion of your argument)
-Single spaced, New Times Roman font, size12.
Textbook content:
School Violence In many schools, vandalism of school property and physical assaults on
students, teachers, and administrators are serious problems. School violence steadily
increased during the 1970s; tapered off during the 1980s, but dramatically increased
again in the early 1990s, peaking in the 1992 1993 academic year. Shootings in schools
across the country prompted many districts to install metal detectors at the doors through
which all students, faculty, and administrators must pass before entering the building
( Morganthau et al., 1992). Observers wrote, at many schools, guns are as familiar as
book bags ( Nordland, 1992: 22), and gun violence in schools has increased to the point
where even fourth and fifth graders are arming themselves ( Morganthau et al., 1992:
25). Violence in the Dallas schools reached epidemic proportions in 1991; a local
television station aired a five- part series called Education: The Four Rs Readin, Ritin,
Rithmetic, and Revolvers. By March 1992, the New York public schools had reported 56
shooting incidents ( 6 result-ing in fatalities), making it the bloodiest school year in the
districts history ( Morganthau et al., 1992). In 1997 and 1998, multiple shooting murders
in Paducah, Kentucky; Pearl, Mississippi; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Springfield, Oregon; and
Littleton, Colorado, prompted school officials across the United States to make the
reduction of school violence their number one priority ( Stewart, 1998). During this same
period, other countries, especially Japan, experienced similar increases in youth
homicides and other forms of violence in the schools ( Zielenziger, 1998). Violence in
schools has been linked to violence in the larger society and to poverty, gang rivalries,
drug sales, and drug abuse ( Ballantine and Hammack, 2009). In an effort to combat
school violence, schools across the United States participate in a fed-erally funded
zero- tolerance afed-erallyfundedzero-tolerance campaign in an effort to establish
schools as gun- free and drug- free zones ( see Sociological Focus 14.3).
