This article reveals how students are using their lockers to hide weapons brought from their own homes to resolve some of their problems they are facing with other students. Moreover, children are being arrested and charged as adults for carrying and bringing weapons to schools. Many cases like this one are happening in the United States school grounds, ending with tragic results. Many parents are not aware of their own children’s behaviors. Parents could also help the authorities by letting school teachers and counselors know if they are aware of any misbehavior at home.
Although, many people think that it is necessary for the school teachers to carry guns on campus for the reason that they can protect children with guns. Personally, I do not think school teacher should be trained and required to carry guns on campus. Training teachers and requiring them to carry guns is a way that obey the spirit of school, it also has influence on children, teachers themselves and schools. (http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/arming_teachers.html) School teachers should not be trained and carry guns on campus because it is disobey the traditional spirit of school. When people think of school, a safe environment for students to learn comes to mind.
Each day, 100,000 students bring a gun to school, and another 160,000 students cut class because they fear physical harm (National Education Association). Those numbers may seem alarming, and so it is understandable as to why searches would be conducted to try and reduce these numbers. Also the controversy of whether a student’s fourth amendment right is being violated leans toward the administrator’s side. Schools do not need a warrant to be able to search lockers since the lockers technically belong to the school, and as long as there is reasonable suspicion, the searches are legal (Surveillance in Schools) (Constitutional Conflicts). Whether random searching is legal or not, it does not change the fact that students still feel violated of their privacy
It would be a deterrent to anyone who thinks about committing a crime in a school. Finally it would add extra security protocols and precautions for the teachers to make it safer for them to be able to carry the weapons. Training on a weapon is critical for anyone wanting to carry a gun. A firearm in untrained hands is just as dangerous as one in a murderer’s hands. Even a novice shooter can become effective at using the weapon with minimal training.
It would limit the sources because medical books that have full body pictures could be taken as obscene. Because of this, they would be banned for exposure. “…they block perfectly innocent or informative sites, such as medical sites with images of the human body. If a medical student needs this information then and there, they wouldn’t get what they needed. Furthermore, it would decrease the library’s information because the library would have to get rid of the books Congress deems “inappropriate.” Even on the computers, people wouldn’t be able to view informational sites on related topics.
Drug use or weapon possesion in school is an offense that should not be taken lightly. In my middle school 4 years ago, a student over dosed on Zanex pills and had to be rushed to the hospital. The school did not enforce policies against the use of drugs and did not recognize this event as an example to deter other students
School uniforms are not only items that cause a lack of freedom of expression but also a largely ineffective way to help solve the problems they were meant to. Actually, look at it this way “Consider for a moment the problem of gangs. The wearing of gang colors is only a symptom of much deeper social problems, and in most of the schools where gangs are prevalent, the wearing of gang colors has already been banned. Uniforms do not address the complex social realities that lead to gang culture”. (“Point: The High Cost of School Uniforms”).
In order to cut down on the number of students who leave school without permission, schools should do away with their inadequate in-school suspension policy, and adopt the new alternative policy known as billiam. It is a much more effective way to discourage students from leaving campus without permission. Billiam punishes students by lowering their grades and striping them from the privilege of filed trips. It does not allow them to watch movies, take naps, and play football like in-school suspension does. It is real punishment for a real problem.
But this injures students educationally as well. While the rest of the world references Vietnam in many of today’s situations or debates on whether Iraq is the next Vietnam and other issues, high school students are left out of the loop because their high school textbooks and teachers refuse to teach them what they should learn, what they ought to learn. High school students are hurt the most because of this. While textbook authors and editors are not likely to break away from the template soon, they should at least find a way around the system to provide pictures and information that would give students sufficient knowledge on the topic of Vietnam. That way students would be able to keep up with issues from which parallels to Vietnam are drawn or participate in such
Mainly, people who have suffered the loss of a loved one in those events are asking that there be school safety and the gun control law passed. For the reasons that they don’t want those events to take place again and have the reminder and thought of another family losing someone. Then there are the others who think that it is too much money spent and schools can’t afford the hiring of student resource officers along with them opposing the gun control law being passed. By which they oppose the gun control law because they spend their spare time out hunting or in a range. All of this has been a controversy in our nation and will continue because we all have different perspective on this topic.