How safe is your school?

noreply@blogger.com (Jessica) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:03:00 +0000

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My podcast

noreply@blogger.com (Jessica) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:01:00 +0000

This podcast may take a while to load. This is the podcast that I have created. I interviewed one high school student about bullying. Some of the questions asked were: What kind of bullying do you see? What kinds of bullying are there? What do you think the cause of bullying is? Can bullying can lead to violence? I believe that bullying is the cause of most school violence. So learning about bullying and trying to prevent it I believe would decrease a lot of violence at schools.

What Else Is Being Said?

noreply@blogger.com (Jessica) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:00:00 +0000

(The podcast may take a while to load but it's definitely worth the wait.)This podcast takes you through a schools experience with a school shooting and a students experience. The mistakes they made and how they have recovered from it. This podcast expresses many points that I have not discussed yet point. One would be that schools are actually the safest place you could be but sometimes incidents do happen and even though school violence rarely reaches the stage of a school shooting each school should still have a plan. This podcast also mentions some of the prevention methods I mentioned in my first post and more. It mentions some studies that were done and the cause of most school violence. Hopefully this podcast will be as informational for you as it was for me.

"Lessons Learned: Preventing School Violence," from KBYU
An episode of NPR: Station Showcase with PRX
Published on February 21st (264 days)
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Producer Rebecca Cressman

Survey Results

noreply@blogger.com (Jessica) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:19:00 +0000

My last blog was about how to prevent school violence and what to do if any kind of violence occurred at your school. In that blog I pointed out that since school violence is becoming a huge problem every student should be aware of what to do if violence occurs at their school. I conducted a survey to see how many students actually knew what to do. I surveyed twenty students at my school, five freshmen, five sophomore, five juniors, and five seniors. The results show that most students don't know what to do. Although some students did say yes when I asked them what they would do. They told me what they would do personally not a plan that the school had constructed for them to do. Also the plans they mentioned are pretty unrealistic and or not very safe. I could tell that all the students I surveyed had never really thought about school violence. 4 out of five freshmen said they wouldn't know what to do which is sort of understandable. Freshmen are new to the school but 4 out of five seniors also said no. They've been coming to the same school for four years but yet most of them don't know what to do. All the seniors that answered said that the school has never had a plan. Some other students mentioned that there middle school went over it but high school never has. High school is where most violence occurs! I found another survey on school violence. This survey asked questions to high school students about violence that had occurred in their school and if they had been a victim of violence. 1 in 4 high school students said they had been a victim of violence at there school.Thirteen of student said they brought a weapon to school. Comparing my survey with this other survey is kind of scary. Violence is increasing and awareness about violence is decreasing when it should be the opposite. Hopefully by conducting this survey I have increased awareness of school violence. Hopefully over time ever school in the country will have a plan.

Does Your School Have A School Plan????????

noreply@blogger.com (Jessica) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:50:00 +0000

As school violence becomes a growing problem,I think students, parents, and school employees should know what to do during a school emergency. First teachers and parents should talk to their students and children to see what they would do during an emergency. Teachers specifically need to explain to their students how they would evacuate the building or what they would do if there was an intruder in the building. Here are some safety guidelines that you need to know during a crisis. I went to several websites on the Internet to see what I could find. I found many safety guidelines and they all pretty much talked about four steps. They are prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. The prevention process has many steps. First talk to your community emergency responder and discuss problems in the school, second know who is in charge of violence prevention strategies, third know how the school addresses school violence and, Last find problems in your school regarding student violence and crime. Next is preparedness, make sure you have a plan. Know how to get out of the building and how to contact each other during a situation. Prevention doesn't always stop emergencies from happening so this is where the response part comes in. Always know the crisis and where it is happening, activate any incident management systems then decide the best thing to do. (Have a lock down, evacuation, reverse evacuation.) Decide if you have all the equipment you need and monitor your emergency first aid. Finally the last step is recovery. First you need to return to learning as quickly as possible, see how the crisis has emotional impacted the people involved and last see what mistakes were made and things that should have been done differently. These are some safety guidelines that I think every school should follow. If these guidelines are followed I believe school violence will stop being such a growing problem.

Concerns about school violence

noreply@blogger.com (Jessica) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:14:00 +0000

School violence is a growing problem in the United States. We have seen incidents of school violence in many different schools around the country just this year alone.Our parents, teachers, school administrators went to school when violence wasn't such a big issue. My opinion is since they are not use to seeing violence happening at school, they are not quiet sure how to react if a situation like shootings, bomb threats, gangs happen. I believe that school violence can be prevented. This blog is all about how to prevent school violence, things parents can do, students can do, teachers and school administrators, and even the country can do. School violence is such a big concern today. As Victoria Rossetti says in her article, teens are influenced by many things today: t.v and magazines, peer pressure, and they may also depressed. This is a growing problem that needs to be addressed. There are many steps that can be taken that can keep teens safer in school. Join me as I explore options that will keep teens safer in school.