School Violence in US

As the nation remembers the victim's of the Virginia Tech Massacre, we still wonder why this happens and continues to happen. One local man has his ideas.

Twenty-five years ago, A teacher was teaching at a high school, when a student shot and killed another teacher in the building. Since then, researched school violence. He says for 25 years, almost all school shootings are the same story: a quiet, loner student, is bullied for years and eventually goes on a shooting spree. In his earlier interview, he told us how frustrating that is. and he tells us how we can break the trend.

This culture of violence that permeates us, as a people in America, I don't think we've done enough to address that issue He was sickened by this week's events in Virginia, but as sad as it sounds, he was not surprised by the shootings. He is seen it happen too many times and he says if we are going to stop them, we need start thinking straight. "You should first divest yourself from the idea that it cannot happen here.

From there, he says every district, nation-wide, needs to take an assessment of just how safe their schools are. "Most people would say 'yes our schools are safe', but they're not always talking to the right people, because school violence generally occurs out of sight,". especially larger ones, may find they do have a violence problem that is based primarily on bullying.

Those schools should have workshops and extensive training to improve bullying and isolating students. He gives La Crosse credit for having one of these workshops at Logistics Health, just last week. "I think this is a good start, and, I think, some of these schools will see, will start to see some change," It's going to take more than one school, in one city, doing one thing, that's not going to change the culture."read more......

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