Sentences with phrase «more school violence»

Poland discusses the causes of school violence and offers strategies to prevent more school violence.

We decided to HS after we moved to a bigger city (with more school violence and more negative influences than we were comfy with) We are now homeschooing our 15 year old and our 6 year old.

Not exact matches

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

The horrifying mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School offered yet another tragic reminder of America's gun problem: The US has much more firearm violence than its developed peers.

The question is whether these incidents of successful defense would outweigh the new incidents of gun violence that would crop up due to the addition of more firearms in schools.

If America wants to confront its gun violence problem, then, the research suggests it should look to reducing the number of guns in circulation — not putting more armed people into schools.

Students, teachers and parents called for an increase in mental health services and more school counselors on Monday night during a discussion of gun violence held in Delray Beach.

Surviving students at the school quickly spoke out on social media and to news cameras about the violence and, more broadly, about political leadership that they saw as having let them down.

The measure comes more than a month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17, and on the eve of the gun violence — focused March for Our Lives.

Even though the incident did not occur on school property, the shooting confirms some of the fears about what could go wrong if teachers were to carry guns in school — that the mere presence of more firearms would increase the risk of gun violence.

An associate dean at Vanderbilt Divinity School, he draws from more than five hundred documents (mostly sermons, and mostly from New England) to show which parts of the Bible proved most instrumental in justifying resistance, rallying troops, and reconciling earthly violence with spiritual warfare.

If more students befriended the loners and the bullied, then there would be less school violence.

When they are in high school they should learn more sophisticated aspects of the media: who's in control, how the power is exercised, how advertising and profits affects what is covered in the news and what is said in all programs, how our violence affects us and how our media imperialism affects other people.

After the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than 4,000 pastors signed on to a letter initiated by 12 clergy in Newtown calling for commonsense solutions to reduce gun violence.

In a recent article on FoxNews.com, Parents Television Council president Tim Winter comments on a 2004 study from the Harvard School of Public Health showing evidence that today's movies contain significantly more violence, sex and profanity than movies of the same rating a decade ago.

«º» º Are more socially involved in school «º» º Have a perceived school connectedness which is protective against health risk behaviors like emotional distress, violence and substance use

I'm much more concerned with how coaches, schools, the NCAA, and law enforcement deal with these types of crimes that involve violence and sexual assault than how they deal with players being paid to come to a certain school.

Most American schools today operate according to a philosophy of discipline that has its roots in the 1980s and 1990s, when a belief that schools would be safer and more effective if they allowed for «zero tolerance» of violence, drug use, and other misbehavior led to a sharp rise in school suspensions.

Many schools now have programs to fight these problems, and teachers and administrators know more about protecting students from violence.

Perhaps there were more acts of violence in schools, workplaces, and communities before Columbine in 1999 and the news at the time just didn't pick up on them?

(Even older grade - schoolers, who may think that they can handle more media violence and explicit material, can be frightened by inappropriate images.)

The result is more child - parent alienation, adolescent drug use, gang membership and violence, school dropouts, delinquency, and depression.

According to the study, more parental monitoring led to less total screen time for kids and reduced exposure to media violence, which in turn led to benefits such as improved sleep, lower BMI, better school performance, improved social behavior, and reduced aggression.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public sSchools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schoolsschools.

«Nigerian authorities have made a commitment to make schools safer and more resilient to attack, and UNICEF stands with them to implement the Safe Schools Declaration, by which Nigeria commits to protecting schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.schools safer and more resilient to attack, and UNICEF stands with them to implement the Safe Schools Declaration, by which Nigeria commits to protecting schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.Schools Declaration, by which Nigeria commits to protecting schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.»

More than 800 related events are taking place around the world to call for legislative action to address school safety and gun violence.

«I've always believed in the need for more independent leadership, and this new effort will support candidates and causes that will help protect Americans from the scourge of gun violence, improve our schools, and advance our freedoms.»

Getting more girls into school is an important building block not only to development - but to help girls and women realize their rights to work, opportunity, education and political participation and freedom from violence.

«We need changes across all government services, from getting health practitioners much more aware of how to spot domestic violence and offering numbers of women's services, to discussing consent to sex in schools,» she said.

Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter-school group that recently filed a lawsuit charging that city schools fail to protect kids against violence and bullying, said the latest data confirm its fear that «more and more weapons are being brought into classrooms and endangering students.Schools, a pro-charter-school group that recently filed a lawsuit charging that city schools fail to protect kids against violence and bullying, said the latest data confirm its fear that «more and more weapons are being brought into classrooms and endangering students.schools fail to protect kids against violence and bullying, said the latest data confirm its fear that «more and more weapons are being brought into classrooms and endangering students.»

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

Shaker was one of more than a dozen schools across the area that participated in a walk - out last week as part of a push for action on gun violence.

And they do much more than respond to school violence.

Libertarian: Gun Violence Solution Easier Said Than Done Few things are «more reprehensible than the instantaneous politicization of terrible events» like the Florida school shooting, argues Reason's Nick Gillespie.

«When it comes to preventing future acts of violence in our schools, let me say this: more guns are not the answer,» he said in his state of the state address.

These behaviors predict more serious adverse outcomes later in life, such as substance abuse, delinquency, and violence, explains study leader Anne Riley, PhD, professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health.

This Childhood Stress study, led by Chilton with several Drexel graduates in the School of Public Health, used both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather information about 31 Philadelphia mothers» experience with deprivation, abuse, violence and neglect, as well as their experiences with hunger, education and employment and more.

When it becomes more difficult for people coming out of school to find jobs, the rate of gun violence at schools increases.

In the last 25 years, there have been two elevated periods of gun violence at U.S. schools, the researchers found; 2007 - 2013 was largely due to events at postsecondary schools while 1992 - 1994 more often involved events at K - 12 schools.

The police and local councils use these maps to target prevention activities more precisely than is possible using police intelligence alone, including redirecting resources, changing police patrol routes, changing the licensing conditions of particular establishments, intervening in other locations, such as street violence hotspots, schools and parks, and the positioning of surveillance cameras.

«As more middle - and high schools begin to implement dating violence prevention programs it is imperative that educators and policymakers understand which programs have been successful.

Those who were given corporal punishment as children are 29 % more likely to extend that abuse into their dating life Northeast Ohio high school students honored during halftime of Cavaliers game for efforts against teen violence

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Don McKay (R for profanity and violence) Prodigal Son whodunit about a jaded janitor (Thomas Haden Church) who gets more than he bargained for when he returns to his hometown for the first time in 25 years at the beck - and - call of his cancer - stricken, high school sweetheart (Elisabeth Shue) only to find himself implicated in a tawdry murder mystery.

It certainly calls back to a time when the notion of random violence in public spaces — especially school shootings — was perceived as more of a theoretical, here - comes - the - boogeyman kind of threat.

January 31, 2013 • More than 200 people crowded into a Senate building on Wednesday for the first hearing on gun violence since the tragic shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.

AN EDUCATION WORLD E-INTERVIEW Principal - in - Residence Speaks Out on Key Issues Preventing violence in schools, involving parents in education, and finding strength in diversity — in an e-interview with Education World, Carole Kennedy, the new principal - in - residence at the Department of Education, touches on those issues and more!

While students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people and wounding more in the Florida school shooting sat in court silently, his head bowed.