school violence

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado, firing sawed-off shotguns and tossing homemade pipe bombs at their fellow students. Twelve classmates and one teacher were killed and twenty-three students were wounded before Harris and Klebold turned their guns on themselves. (Grapes 9) This was soon to be remembered as the biggest high school shooting in America. Columbine is among many schools with violence problems. These problems concerning violence in …

…by teaching kids reasoning with their problems. There are lots of problems with violence in schools such as easy access to guns, social issues, the media, Gangs and how psychiatric drugs can cause children to flip out and cause problems at school. On the flip side to each problem there is something positive that can be done to prevent or help eliminate it. Violence in schools is a problem and in needs time be fixed.