School Violence. Social Sciences. Research Paper.

School Violence
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School violence is one of the disciplinary problems that many schools tend to experience every year. It refers to any activity which can bring a distraction in a school’s education system. This includes to a wide range of activities among which are school shootings, bullying, including cyberbullying, use of weapons, verbal abuses and physical attacks such as fights, gangs, and the usage or possession of weapons (Varela et al., 2018). Similarly, school violence also refers to disputes or confrontations, whether verbal or physical, that students may face on their way to school, on their way home from school or at an event that the school funds, and end up getting hurt either physically or even psychologically. This write-up delves into the occurrence of school violence in schools and how they can be stopped.
Schools are places where parents entrust their children for not just intellectual growth but also growth in other aspects of life such as physically, socially, and emotionally among others (Varela et al., 2018). However, these very places of trust have often turned into centers of violence which have ended up causing much harm on the students, and even death in some cases. History records a number of incidents which were foremost forms of school violence that led to the study of violence in schools (U. S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015). Among the documented incidents are cases where Andrew Kehoe bombed his school in Bath, Michigan, in 1927, killing many students, including himself; and Paul Orgeron’s bombing of a playground in Texas in 1959, killing both teachers and students as well as himself. Today, there are 272 known cases of school violence in the database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation recorded from early 1900s up to date.
According to research, there are many different factors that can increase a student’s likelihood to commit school violence. Psychologists point out that among these reasons include poor performance in academics, which can cause the students to attack the successful students, a history of violence, drug or substance abuse, and biological factors, with most of them being inherited genes (Varela et al., 2018). Other factors include an impecunious community in which violence is a normal thing, experiencing bullying from others, poor family organization, and behavioral disorders such as attention deficit disorders and impulsiveness (Varela et al., 2018).
In response to these reasons, many sch...