First School: River Oaks Charter School The first school I visited River Oaks Charter School (ROCS), a K-5th elementary school which is located in within a community that has mostly families living below the poverty. ROCS is a well diverse school when it comes to ethnicity. I chose this school to visit due to the uniqueness in demographic location and pupil/staff ethnicity. The diverse nature of the school calls for various issues that can arise. For example, misunderstanding of culture; which can
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Bloody Pixels: Video Game Violence There are many speculations on video game violence and its harmful effects on the kids who have come addicted to playing them. Many people believe that video games are the ultimate cause of why we see aggression and violence from our youth today. In reality video games are not the main cause of this violence that is being seen. There are many factors that are not being accounted for when determining the cause of a child's violence. Factors such as abuse, depression
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Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Lanza had significant mental health issues which psychologist say did affect his ability to live a normal life. (www.CNN.com). Today there are has been more than 100 school shootings since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. (www.schoolsecurity). Traumatic stress and psychological distress play a major role in counseling children. School counseling has become even more valuable in the U.S. due to traumatic events such as school shootings. School
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The Columbine High School massacre or simply Columbine was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine,[2][3] an unincorporated area of Jefferson County in the state of Colorado. In addition to the shootings, the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and bombs rigged in cars. The perpetrators, two senior students Eric Harris and Dylan
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One of the most known school shootings that is still remembered today is the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Although this school shooting was targeting young children and staff at an elementary school the shooter was twenty-year-old Adam Lanza. He killed 28 people whom included his mother and himself. This took place in Newton Connecticut and occurred because Lanza suffered from mental health issues that were not acknowledged or treated. Lanza had easy access to weapons, which made this shooting
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comStaff). This proves that the two boys could have had a mental problem, which in the end could have been the cause for the shooting. But others said they did not want to face the punishment and ultimately committed suicide. The original plan of this massacre was supposed to be a bombing however, the bombs never went off (History.comStaff). This quote makes people wonder if they are really crazy, or do they have a mental problem? Those people could argue that they did not want to suffer the consequences
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This year has had a big impact on me for a variety of reasons. School being one of the reasons, but also everything that has been happening in society and the world today. Today’s generation and our society today has changed drastically from what it used to be years ago. Our kids today are being affected by our world the most, because a lot of what happens, happens to our kids, or in the schools the kids go to. This year, 2018, there has been 22 school shootings since January, and tons of bullying
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Lately, all that people across the United States seem to be hearing about are all the recent school shootings that have occurred, and it is no surprise; so far there has been 23 school shootings in the United States this year alone, and we are only 21 weeks into the year! (Ahmed 1) Now, there are disputes everywhere as to what schools should do to ensure the safety of their students; these precautionary ideas range from schools investing in better security systems, to making tighter gun laws, to
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School shootings are rare, yet every time one occurs, it reveals the disturbing vulnerability of schools and universities to acts of violence. These shootings not only make the parents feel unsafe sending their children off to school but also causes political debate. This topic has ignited a dispute over gun violence, zero tolerance policies, and gun control. The Controversial topic has created a main attention grabber for satirists. A satirist is a writer who uses politics or everyday issues and
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In his political documentary, “Bowling for Columbine” filmmaker Michael Moore says that fear-mongering perpetuated by American media is what supplies our endemic gun violence. Moore supports this argument by providing expert testimony of how the media attempts to make the audience fear whatever they are covering that night, citing research, citing statistics of how many guns murders that America has opposed to other major developed countries, and sharing personal anecdotes of things such as Canadians
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