Students in schools are permitted to carry identification cards on them at all times when on school campus. Local law enforcements are now putting officers in the hallways, to post security during the change of classes and to patrol the campus grounds during class time. Last would be the installation of cameras on school buses to monitor the bus riders. Administrators in schools have begun to show zero tolerance on things that students say, write, or show that might indicate any act of violence upon other students. For example, six students in Decatur, Ill. were expelled from school for one year for fighting at a high school game.
People are asking for metal detectors, security guards, locked doors and armed teachers in schools, but just how far do people go in this matter? One parent said "As much physical security as you put in, the person who's intent on getting past that will find a way" (Hayes). School administration just needs to be prepared for when someone does. “Arlington school board members say they have no desire for teachers to bring concealed guns to class and instead are focusing on measures such as new surveillance cameras and door buzzers to improve security at schools” (Schrock). One of the most popular solutions being debated is the addition of armed guards.
Gun laws pertaining to schools prevent people from saving more lives and stopping shootings in the making. The Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 goes down in history as the worst school shooting in U.S history. Seung-Hui killed “32 unarmed students on the campus of Virginia Tech” (McGrath), taking his time to go through the building as he “had no expectation that a fellow student or a faculty member might shoot back”(McGrath) thanks to Virginia Tech’s gun-free zone. If Virginia Tech hadn’t had that law, people like Tracy Bridges would have had their guns on them, saving some students that could be alive today “instead of having to sprint to their cars in distant parking lots.” (McGrath).The same happened in1997 when Luke Woodham, then 16, used and action rifle to kill two students and wound seven others at his high school in Pear, Mississippi. Joel Myrick heard the shots and sprinted to get his .45 that was “Prohibited by law” (McGrath) onto campus.
Today there is not a more hotly debated issue than gun control. The most recent school shooting event has prompted an “I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more” moment just like it did in Sydney Lumet’s 1976 movie, Network. How many more school shootings do there need to be before the government stops talking about it and steps up and does something about it? It all seems to have started on April 20, 1999, when two high school students who were armed with weapons and bombs entered Columbine High School and killed twelve of their fellow classmates, one teacher and injured many more. On December 14, 2012, a lone gunman killed twenty first graders and six school teachers and administrators with an assault style rifle at the Sandy Hook Elementary School just outside of Newtown, Connecticut (Jonson).
To me the children of today don’t care if they kill someone and they would not go to jail because their age. They are robbing older people, and breaking in to people thinking that they are not going to jail. The first source that I have found on the website is WWW.time.com/ By Time, and it was written (By Jessica, Reaves in 2001, 17 may) that should the law treat kids and adults differently. What I had read (By Jessica, Reaves) there was a 14 years-old Nathaniel Brazil was charged with second-degree murder for killing his teacher. And in Florida jury had gave a 14 year-old boy who killed a girl while playing wresting moves on her, and now will be life in prison without parole.
Should Teachers Carry Guns To School? Imagine the idea of being defenseless against an individual possessing the intention of wreaking mass destruction on the students and staff inside of a school. In 1999, Columbine High School, in Littleton Colorado, experienced a tragedy that holds historic importance to the concept of protecting those inside of a school in a worst case scenario. When thirteen students had their life taken away during a school shooting, the idea of allowing teachers to carry handguns during class received more attention than ever. The safety of the students at school may be at risk, such as the school shootings that occurred at Columbine High School.
Should parents be punished for their children's bullying crimes? One New York student thinks so. She's taking her aggressors and their parents to court, and she's not the only one who favors such action. Caitlin Rocco, a senior at Scholars Academy in Rockaway Beach, told New York's CBS2 that she has been "tormented" for years by classmates. And while she said she's "counting the days until graduation," she doesn't plan to leave high school without fighting back.
They are there to educate students. In the weeks following the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, a number of state officials’ proposals to fight school gun violence by arming educators and educational administrators have been met with staunch disagreement. However, many fail to realize that more than one-third of all states already consent to educators and educational administrators carrying firearms on school grounds. Across the nation, 18 states allow educators and educational administrators to carry a loaded gun on school grounds, generally provided that they have written permission from a principal or the school board. Some laws include requirements for permissible activities like safety demonstrations or ceremonies.
I know that I could let my 10 year old daughter walk to school by herself, but with shooting all the time I walk her to school. Sometimes, I get scared just sitting in my house doing nothing. It’s crazy to know that you are not even safe in your own home. The gangs are taking over society and holding us hostage in our homes. I don’t let my kids play outside, because of the violence.
A veil is seen as a controversial symbol all around the world. In Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, the author is forced to wear a veil to school by those that called for a cultural revolution in Iran when she is 10 years old. Her French non-religious school is abolished and boys and girls are separated for education. Her mother protests against the changes and her picture appears in newspapers across Europe. Marjane grows up to become a "rebel" and, after a confrontation with one of her teachers, she is kicked out of school.