ySahil Mehta Professor Guenther Sociology 001 October 29, 2010 School Safety Littleton, Colorado was a Midwestern city that went relatively unheard of until April 20, 1999. It was on that Tuesday morning that the small suburban town became the site of the worst high school shooting in American history. Armed with guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked the halls of Columbine High School and embarked on a massacre. At the end of the day, twelve students, one teacher, and the two murderers were pronounced dead. Socialization is the process by which human beings must learn to pattern their behavior and adapt it to the society in which they live, which brings me to ask the question: How has the Columbine
Patrick Ireland was shot twice in the head and once in the foot during the carnage in the Columbine High School library. When the killers left the library, his surviving classmates tried to get him to come with them, but had to give up and fled without him. Over several hours, Patrick, with one side paralyzed, with his right foot shattered and useless, with a shotgun pellet eight inches into his brain, and with even his survival in doubt, crawled to the second-floor window. Then, with the world watching, he dropped out of it, into the arms of SWAT team officers. His recovery was arduous amazing, and it is a story of determination, support from around the world from people both famous and otherwise, triumph, and success in his adult life.
On morning of April 16,2007, Seung-Hui Cho perpetrated the deadliest shooting incident in the US by a single gunman. Cho, a 23 year old senior at Virginia Tech first killed two students in West Ambler Johnston Hall, a residence hall, at appropriately 7:15am. Cho had access to the building more than likely by using his pass card, although his card was coded for access only after 7:30am. It is undetermined how he gained access prior to 7:30am on April 16th. After Cho left the scene at West Ambler Johnston Hall he changed out of his bloodied clothes, logged onto his computer, deleted all of his emails and removed his hard drive.
Columbine Massacre Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at 11:19 AM, a witness heard Eric Harris yell, “Go! Go!” (Wikipedia). Two teenage student of Columbine high, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, arrived at school with an arsenal full of weapons ready to reap revenge on all those who had done them wrong. After the hour-long rampage and the chaos was over twelve students and a teacher were dead, twenty-four others were wounded and the two shooters had committed suicide. This massacre has provoked much debate into the issues of gun control and availability of firearms in the United States, as well as high school cliques, bullying and the role of violent movies and video games in American society.
Also, last September, a 19 year-old gunman wielding an AK-47 assault rifle terrorized the campus before killing himself on the sixth floor of the library. "School is already an emotional battleground. To add on physicality to it, you could really stir things up." States Konrad Sliwowski, a senior at the University. He discusses this topic to jolt the reader into considering themselves in a situation of terror or chaos, and reflect on whether if they had the choice if concealing
Violent Adolescents Annette Fuentes writes an interesting article called Crackdown on Kids. Fuentes wrote this article for the June 15/22 issue of The Nation. This article is about how we have neglected to see the real problem at hand with juvenile delinquents and how quick we as a society are to just throw them in detention facilities rather than solve the problems in a more effective manner. Fuentes wrote this article in response to the shooting sprees at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. On March 24, 1998, three boys, ages 11, 13, and 15, unloaded a slew of mini arsenals and were responsible for the deaths of four students and a teacher.
She strongly believed in structure and procedure. Schedules and discipline posters were posted all around the school. Every day, students start out their day greeted with a smile, breakfast, and announcements. Over time, Judy saw Greenleaf Elementary attendance start to rise tremendously. By the end of the school year, Judy saw that the only reason students were leaving school were for major reasons, such as hospitalizations and
Schools have at least a hand full of teachers that really care about the students life after high school, some teachers make sure that there students go to college and some don’t even care what goes on when were out of there classroom. Many of these issues should be payed attention to before they get worser. I bet if you change some things that I asked for you will see some change in Chicago. From the community crime to the CPS system. Make more changes that will help the people and community not just yourself and other government people goods think about the
More on Moore On the 20th of April 1999 a massacre occurred at Columbine High School in Colorado. Two senior high school students, named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, had planned and mapped out an entire massacre to occur that day. On that catastrophic Tuesday 14 school students and 1 teacher was killed. Shortly afterwards the two students turned the gun onto themselves and committed suicide. The award winning documentary investigates Michael Moore’s suggestion for the reason behind the Columbine Massacre and other violent events in the US due to the gun policy.
Columbine Massacre Criminology March 12, 2009 On April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado two students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris committed what is thought to be one of the worse school massacres to ever happen. To this day law enforcement officials as well as others continue looking for just cause as to why these boys would commit such acts, and in the end take their own lives. The massacre that was committed by Dylan and Eric was not only criminal, but deviant as well. Criminal acts are those violating the law, which Eric and Dylan did on numerous levels during this massacre. They had possession of illegal firearms which included a Intratec TEC-DC9, a Hi-Point 995 Carbine, Savage 67H pump action shotgun, and a Stevens 311D double