When child abuse is suspected, school staff reports such potential abuse, alerting authorities when necessary. Moreover, schools are very active in prevention of abuse for future generations as well. Planning for parenthood and equipping older students with proper sex education helps keeps kids informed and aware of their sexual behavior and its potential impact on future children. Many high schools around the country "have curricula on learning how to parent adequately" (Crosson-Tower 2003). This helps create a situation where future child abuse can be minimized. Question 3

This system has some strengths and weaknesses. It allows school staff to take a proactive role in students' lives, creating a change when needed in cases of potential abuse. The teacher's role as a protector and the requirements of reporting potential abuse helps alert authorities when they would otherwise not have known. Still, there are weaknesses as well. Bullying is a common practice within schools, and is a form of child abuse as well. Unfortunately, "low levels of supervision at schools can be problematic, particularly on the playground or in the hallways"...

This can allow situations were bullying affects many of the children within the educational institution.
Question 4

Using previous offenders to help create new and more effective prevention strategies is an innovative approach to prevention abuse and neglect. It allows authorities to get an inside perspective on abuse that they would otherwise lack. Such strategies are taking advantage others' crimes and making some good come from in that authorities are learning about signals and signs that accompany abuse. Many might see this as potentially dangerous, yet I believe that it is an innovative way to create and implement more effective prevention programs because it uses the experiences and knowledge of real offenders who have dealt with the system and know its inefficiencies.

References

Crosson-Tower, Cynthia. (2003). Preventing child abuse and neglect. Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect. Web. http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanuals/educator/educatorf.cfm

Henderson, Nan. (2012). How resiliency happens. Resiliency in Action. Web. http://www.resiliency.com/