Violence in the Education System

School Violence Schools have more Responsibility to Prevent School Violence than ever before Issues related to school violence have become an increasingly salient issue in modern society. This issue affects schools on many levels. On one level, there rise in the number of tragedies such as mass shootings have increased and these incidents clearly illustrate the need for safer educational environments for children and adolescents. However, there are also more subtle examples of violence that can occur in school environments such as bullying.

The evidence that bullying is severe physical and psychological detriment to students has become increasingly clear. Furthermore, technology has also offered new platforms in which violence can occur between students. For example, there have been many cases of online bullying that have occurred on social networks. This analysis will provide a brief overview of different types of violence that can occur in schools as well as a discussion about a school's responsibility to students and the local community within this environment.

Overview of School Violence There are many extreme cases of school violence that have flooded mass media channels in recent years. While the number of extreme incidents of school violence remains relatively small, extreme incidents cause the most concern for parents, teachers, law enforcement, and educational administrators (Crews, 2014). For example, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was among the most tragic events in U.S. History to date. This incident represents the second deadliest mass shooting by a single individual in U.S.

history (the first was also a school shooting, but at a college at the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings). These are clear and obvious examples of extreme violence that has occurred on school campuses and sparked a national debate about how to best protect children from incidents of extreme violence. This has prompted many to consider how guns are ending up in the hands of unstable individuals and as a result many people and politicians have demanded more effective gun regulations.

The visibility of these school shootings has been wide spread and have dominated much of the discussion about school violence in recent years. The response to these evident have ranged considerably in different schools from doing nothing to increasing many school security measures such as introducing metal detectors and school security personnel on some campuses. However, there are many more examples of violence that are not as extreme as mass shootings.

Problems such as youth delinquency, violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy and school dropout have been identified as the common risk factors that that research has found to impede effective learning in students (Adelman & Taylor, 2002). Other problems such as mental health concerns that include school adjustment problems, physical and sexual abuse, relationship difficulties, severe emotional disturbance and neglect are also have been found to be responsible for prevention of effective learning for students.

Thus violence is a common denominator in many of the factors that have been identified that impede learning and many of these forms of violence occur on a much more regular basis than the more extreme example of gun violence in schools. Bullying that occurs in the school has become increasingly a more discussed form of violence that regularly occurs in schools.

The concept of bullying encompasses a wide range of different activities that includes everything from mental intimidation and name calling, to insults and threats, all the way to actual physical violence. Some schools have also experienced increases in gang related violence which also represents a factor that can create a hostile environment that deters the potential for learning. Furthermore, there are also new forms of bullying that technology has enabled such as cyber bullying.

Such bullying and violent activities also can occur regularly in school and due to the same reasons students can impede their education as well as others (Adelman & Taylor, 2002). Discussion All of the different forms of violence can be a challenge for educators and administrators. School violence is a phenomenon of global concern and the increasing prevalence of school violence presents the educational system and its members with the challenge of finding solutions (Beccerra, Munoz, & Riquelme, 2015).

There is no consensus on a proper response to the issue of violence that plagues modern schools and many researchers and educational.