Violence in the world-School Violence

   

Whose problem is school violence? The answer is all of ours. Just as it is a problem we all must deal with, it is also a problem we all must work to solve.

    Since the 1992-3 school year, 270 violent deaths have occurred at schools across the nation according to The National School Safety Center's Report on School Associated Violent Deaths. The majority of these deaths, 207, were shooting victims.

    However, the number of deaths in the 1999-2000 school years was almost one quarter the number that occurred in 1992-3. Though those numbers seem encouraging, most people would agree that any statistical data of this nature is unacceptable.

   What about a big amount of persons losing their lives like CHILDREN? Along these years there were many massacres but the worst one was in September 2004 the ‘‘Beslan school hostage crisis' which took three days. It all happened when a group of rebels kidnapped over 1200 children and adults at School Number One. There were over 700 injured persons and at least 380 deaths!

    Another tragedy is the Columbine High School massacre .On April 20, 1999, in the small, suburban town of Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, enacted an all-out assault on Columbine High School during the middle of the school day. The boys' plan was to kill hundreds of their peers. With guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs, the two boys walked the hallways and killed. When the day was done, twelve students, one teacher, and the two murderers were dead; plus 21 more were injured. The haunting question remains: why did they do it?

  

In Europe, it is reported that physical violence in the school setting has been static in recent years but that ‘minor violence’ (rudeness and verbal harassment, for example) is increasing. Generally this minor violence is labeled as’ lack of discipline’, but it is important to note that the research suggests that minor violence can spiral and lead to

serious acts of violence.

 Sources:

Beslan school hostage crisis, Martinfrost  .6.Apr.2011.  .7.Apr.2012   

<http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/beslan_siege.html>

''Beslan school hostage crisis'' ,Wikipedia  .4 .Apr. 2012.  .10. Apr. 2012. 

< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis>

Melissa Kelly, ''School Violence'', About.com.9.Apr.2012

<http://712educators.about.com/cs/schoolviolence/a/schoolviolence_1.htm>

Jennifer Rossenberg, ''Columbine Massacre'',About.com.10.Apr.2012.

<http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/columbine.htm>

European Communities, ''Violence and school'' 2008 ''Europa.eu'''Printed in Belgium, August 2008

<http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/daphnetoolkit/files/others/booklets/08_daphne_booklet_8_en.pdf>

Photo. 10 April. 2012 islamizationwatch.blogspot.com 

< http://islamizationwatch.blogspot.com >.

Famous people who fought violence in peace-Martin Luther King Jr.

  Martin Luther King Jr. (born on January 1929 15, Atlanta, Georgia - died on April 4, 1968,Memphis, Tennessee) was a Baptist minister in  North America, best known as a fighter for the rights of people of color in the United States of America.
  He organized and led marches to get the right to vote and other civil rights for blackcitizens of North American.
   Martin Luther King was the youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for the fight against racial discrimination. He made efforts to fight poverty and stop the war in Vietnam.
   King is most famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for

Martin Luther King Jr. (born on January 1929 15, Atlanta, Georgia - died on April 4, 1968,Memphis, Tennessee) was a Baptist minister in North America, best known as a fighter for the rights of people of color in the United States of America.
He organized and led marches to get the right to vote and other civil rights for black citizens of North American.
   Martin Luther King was the youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for the fight against racial discrimination. He made efforts to fight poverty and stop the war in Vietnam.
   King is most famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
   At the White House Rose Garden on 2 November 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. Observed for the first time on January 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following President George H. W. Bush's 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of January each year, near the time of King's birthday. On January 17, 2000, for the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all fifty U.S. stat.

Sources:


~Library of Congress, “ New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection” <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c26559>

~Dr. Martin Luther King giving his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in Washington,  Photo.  28 August 1963. 11 April 2012  <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Martin_Luther_King_-_March_on_Washington.jpg>

~“Martin Luther King Junior” . Document. 11 April 2012. 11 April 2012 <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Martin_Luther_King_-_March_on_Washington.jpg>



Adina's story

I always feel excluded by my classmates. They avoid sitting next to me and they do not even talk to me. When I try to talk to any of them, I feel like I am annoying them; they laugh and walk away. I do not have any friends although this is my third year in this school. I don't know what I did to deserve such treatment. I have never hurt anyone. I wish I had more courage to tell how painful it is to be treated like nobody.

by Adina

We can stop violence!

Communication is one of the best ways to let the people know what's more important in life: to live in peace and not to be violent when you want something, to accept the others and not to be racist, plus more things like these.

The communication is more than talking, people communicate with feelings, behavior and other internal ways of expressing our feelings.

If humans would understand the effect of these tragic situations there wouldn't be any other injured or insulted poor souls.

If you want to make a change like being a better person, tell us your opinion by commenting at this post.

Gabriel's story

In a stormy day I fell almost asleep during the math classes. Suddenly the break bell rang ''thanks god'' I grumbled.

All of a sudden I heard an evil laugh on the school hall. I went to check what was happening then everything became confusing. Alex, the bad guy from my school had an evil expression on his face asking me to give him my lunch.

  I just told him that it's my food and I don't have anything else to eat and then...he started acting so cruel and he used bad language!

 I got to say that I escaped ''alive'' because of the math teacher who saw us and rebuked Alex but he didn't care.

I wasn't at school for the next three days because I felt unsafe and I knew for sure that Alex was going to do the same thing in the next days!

  I told my mom about what happened and after that she talked with Alex's mom. He apologized for everything he did and he promised he'll never do any bad things again.

  After all I got to say that now me and Alex are friends!

   By Gabriel

Marius's story

I was walking on the hall in a break. It was a sunny day and I wanted to go outside.

Suddenly , a guy taller than me appeared around the corner. He pushed me back and started screaming something that I didn't understand. I tried to avoid him but he followed me in the schoolyard. He grabbed my T-shirt and pulled me on the ground.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked.

"You make me feel stupid because you're smarter!"he replied.

" What's you problem ? Try to learn and you'll be as smart as I am!" I replied trying to get up.

He looked at me and than ran in his class. Now every time I see him on the hall I get back in class, I don't want to talk to him again.

by Marius

Andrei's Story

     One day, when I was at school, I was rushing, going through the school's hall in the middle of the break, because I needed to go to the toilet. If it wasn't that problem, believe me, I wouldn't dare to go out of the class-room.    

    Yeah, how all know that, I was staring to the right then to the left, searching for bullies, of course, trying to avoid them like every kid nowadays. Suddenly, I changed my mind: how it could be if one day someone would face a bully. Maybe if I would be the first one, who knows...maybe I could win a price, or money, or could be seen in different magazines OR be invited at televisions to explain the people how brave I have been, BEING THE FIRST ONE WHO FACED A BULLY.

 One day, when I was at school, I was rushing, going through the school's hall in the middle of the break, because I needed to go to the toilet. If it wasn't that problem, believe me, I wouldn't dare to go out of the class-room.    

    Yeah, how all know that, I was staring to the right then to the left, searching for bullies, of course, trying to avoid them like every kid nowadays. Suddenly, I changed my mind: how it could be if one day someone would face a bully. Maybe if I would be the first one, who knows...maybe I could win a price, or money, or could be seen in different magazines OR be invited at televisions to explain the people how brave I have been, BEING THE FIRST ONE WHO FACED A BULLY.

    So I started going faster, having in my mind that crazy thing. Then, the worse came: in front of me was standing a bully, who was getting money from a little boy. The first instinct was to run away, but then, that thought with facing a bully came quickly. I didn't know what to do...

    Finally, I decided to go and face that guy. I went to him and said like this: "Leave the boy and do not ever mess with the small ones!" But I quickly realized that it wasn't the best choice, because he angrily pushed me and started to say that I mustn't tell him what he need to do.

    When I almost thought he was going to hit me, a teacher heard the argue and started to scold him. I felt so relieved... After that, I understood that is not a good idea to mess with the bullies, contrary, leaving them alone, because finally, someone will realize what they are doing and certainly, those people will know what to do, at last, violence will be ruined like no one could ever be forced to use it.

By Andrei                              

Adi's School story

This year I witnessed how my best friend was beaten by our school's bully. I, Adi and my best friend, Michael were waiting for the gym class to start the boys' locker.

As usual we were chatting. Our conversation was interrupted by the bully, who yelled at Mihai "This is my place! You are sitting on my PLACE! Get lost or I'll beat you up!”. My best friend tried to negotiate with him, but unfortunately the bully got so mad, that he pushes Mihai. The two of them started fighting and continued that way until the gym teacher arrived.

Both of them arrived in the principal's office, where they got suspended for a week. Later that exact day, Mihai's parents went to talk with the bully's parents. The parents had a great shock.

The bully hadn't got any parents so he lived in an orphanage. The woman running that place told Mihai's parents that the bully, Mike, was abandoned when he was five, by his father only. Apparently, his mother died when he was born, so his father was left alone to take care of him. She explained that Mike had several soul wounds, that couldn't be cured, only maintained in place, and unfortunately that only with the help of anger release.

Mihai told me everything at school and I understood. From that point we all started to treat Mike well. Since we treated him nicely, the fearless bully from our school turned into a little lamb, which was happy all the time and helped everyone.

by one of the creators of this blog, Adi