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Our schools are meant to be safe places where
students can learn and educators can work in an
atmosphere of caring, security, and hope. School
violence is a societal problem, not a school problem.
Educators, parents, students, law enforcement,
businesses, community groups, churches, government-
literally everyone in every community-must work
together to protect our schools and our children. We should prevent school violence by learning the causes
of violent behavior, know your community, and search
students and lockers.
The first thing that you can do to prevent school
violence is to learn what some of the causes are of
violent behavior. Early predictors of assaultive
behavior appear to be difficulty gaining reading
skills, and extremely aggressive behavior as early as
kindergarten. Out of all the causes of violent behavior, the main cause would be racial
discrimination accompanied by few economic, social,
and educational opportunities. Racial discrimination
has been a problem for many years, and still is today.
The first thing that you can do to prevent
school violence is get to know your community. Your
organizer's first task should be to survey his/her
community to build a list of all potential groups and
persons who would have the same interest as your
association in assuring safe schools. PTA's or other
school parent groups should be first on your list.
Next, look at youth activity groups such as YMCA,
YWCA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Little League, or other
youth sports organizations. Don't look over one of the
most important sources of help-law enforcement. City
police and County sheriffs bring firsthand experience
to your cause just as they have with programs such as
DARE. The police are not just at schools because they
want to be there, they're there because they want to
protect the children and the community.
The second thing that you can do to prevent school
violence is to search students and lockers. Although
under certain circumstances school officials may
search a student and/or a student's property, to avoid
being sued it is advisable to allow administrators to
conduct to search. Warrantless searches by school
authorities will be upheld provided that they are
supported by a reasonable suspicion that the search
will uncover evidence of an infraction of school
disciplinary rules or a violation of the law. Thus, a
warrantless search of a student's property by school
official is permissible if it is justified at its
inception and the scope of the search is reasonably
related to the purpose of the search. A school
official may search a student or his/her personal
property with a good reason. The official must feel a
search will lead to the finding of illegal items being
brought on to school property.