Entities, teachers, http://home.51.com/91210690/diary/item/10053168.html, and students expect schools to become a routine. Acts of violence disrupt the learning process, not to mention having a profoundly negative emotional effect on those affected by school violence. According to a recent report on school crime and student safety from the CDC and the Department of Education, students aged twelve through eighteen are victims of over 2.7 million crimes in school every year. Over the past year, 15% of all high school students reported being involved in a physical altercation on school property. Just how common are crimes on school campuses? 28 percent of students in junior high school and high school reported being bullied in the last six months. A substantial part of these students also admitted avoiding one or more places at school for their own safety. Nearly 20% of scholars in middle and high school report being threatened with a beating. According to the Gun-Free Schools Act Report, nearly four thousand students are expelled every year for bringing a gun to school. Perhaps surprisingly, more than a third of those expulsions involve junior high school students, and a tenth involve even younger students. School violence may be stereotypically a high school occurrence, but it happens at all levels of the school system, even among kids as young as 7 or 8 years of age. In addition to incidents involving firearms, there is also a large number of other crimes, http://lide9934.blogbus.com/logs/192575607.html, from physical assault to threat to vandalism, happening on school campuses worldwide.
Not only gun-related expulsions, but also violence in general, is more common in middle schools than in high schools. Students aged twelve through fourteen are more likely than older students to be victims of crime in school. It is probable that violence, theft, and drugs will still be significant problems within the school system. A tenth of all high school students reported being threatened with, or injured with, ammunition in the previous year. Students in middle school or high school may be victims of theft while in school more than while away from school. A quarter reported that drugs had been offered to them on school property in the past year. The point to take from this is that children are not immune from violence in schools, regardless of how old they are. This may seem like a metropolitan high school problem, but it happens in schools of any size, and in all locations. An astounding 86 percent of public schools reported one or more serious violent incidents during the 2005-2006 school year. The general crime rate within schools is 46 reported crimes each year per 1,000 students. If you have a child in school, http://jake0370.blog.guxiang.com/article/2012/2012215172525.shtml, regardless of how old they are, they should be ready to deal with the potential of such situations arising. Your options to protect your kids from violence at school are unfortunately limited. Most schools have a 'no tolerance' policy, meaning that students may not carry such devices as pepper spray or a stun gun. They can, however, bring a personal alarm to school, and this can be invaluable in alerting teachers and other adults to a violent or potentially violent confrontation.