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What can I do as a teacher to help prevent school violence?

Mar 6, 2018

Hey all. I honestly feel a bit shaken by the violence in schools nowadays, not just the shootings, but there generally seems to be a lot of major issues in city schools. I used to welcome quiet kids, now I fear some of them, not in a nervous way, but in a suspicious way. I think, as a community, we need to do something cuz I shouldnt be afraid to go to class anytime I hear someone has been picked on earlier in the week. I've been listening to lots of opinions and they all seem split, which I don't get (this guy seems to have articulated this phenomenon well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfV2tLAOk8&feature=youtu.be , but I dont see us rallying to do anything like that nowadays). But it seems like all my co-workers kinda just shrug everything off as "that's the way it goes" and I feel like that's wrong. Already the talk has died down about school violence, merely a week after an atrocious shooting, and anytime I do see something, it one extreme reaction or another (i.e. like Kur...See More

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