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This article from Ethnic Newswatch talks about how there is a lot of violence going around in our schools. One interesting story that the article mentions is about how a teacher at a high school was beaten by a couple of his students. The teacher had recently taken away one of the students iPods during class. Both students then afterward beat the high school teacher up. After the beating, he was taken to the hospital with two broken bones in his neck and will need surgery to help correct the problems with his vertebrae. It is so interesting that a child, who had his iPod taken away during class, would do such a thing. The student shouldn’t have had it in class in the first place and the teacher probably took it away because he wasn’t paying attention in class. The article continues and talks about how people are being watched on video cameras and they don’t care because they still continue to do what is wrong even if they know they can get caught. The article states, “Serial robbers throw hot coffee in the faces of convenience store clerks in full view of video cameras, and get away with it time after time”. People continue to do stupid things and should not get away with it because it is causing harm to our society.
The article written by Kimmel and Mahler relates well to violence in schools. The article states, “using such an approach to interpret the various that led up to each of the shootings, we find that a striking similarity emerges between the various cases. All or most of the shooters had tales of being harassed…” (115). It is very true that most violence is caused from harassment. People want to get back at the people who caused them pain. No one wants to sit around while people make fun of them or put them down for something they believe in or do. There should be an outlet for these people to go to, so they can talk about their problems without hurting others. The people doing the harassing are not the only people who are harmed in violence because everyone around the violence is harmed. These two pieces of work agree that there is a lot of violence going on in our society. Something needs to be done about the violence because it is getting out of control.
I think that the violence could stem from video games or parents who are not paying attention to their kids. There is a lot of violence in video games these days and children who are younger and younger see this violence and think its okay. Parents also need to talk to their kids about things that are going on in their life. It would be beneficial if children knew they had their parents to talk to.