Most Americans don’t understand the extent of violence in our school system today or simply don’t understand how to address the issue. All we can seem to do is talkhow bad the situation has gotten. Politicians and members of the press want to debate thisissue to their benefit of gaining societies approval. Violence in schools has spread widelythroughout the nation and has caused many problems among students, families, faculty ofschools, and residents of the areas.These issues will be discussed and I will produce whatcould or "should" be done to correct these problems. These dilemmas have been addressed but seem to be an ongoing struggle that cannever be overcome. Almost three-fourths of the United States teens are afraid of violentcrime amongst their peers(Apfel 23). With all this controversy more and more people areobtaining weapons to ensure their safety. Nearly half of all males and one-third of allstudents including females said they can easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to(Glazer14). However, their are many possible ways we can stop this violence in schools.One positive step to engage in this process is to install metal detectors into theschools of children everywhere. Since schools have gotten metal detectors and scanners,they have cut down the rate of having handguns in schools by nearly 58%(Glazer 5). People think that carrying guns around schools with them will make them cool or fit inwith other people like themselves. By issuing these metal detectors, students who carryguns to schools for this reason could possibly be easily discouraged from doing so. It alsohelps that students who actually are able to get guns into the school are increasingly caught and having them taken away. Some schools districts that experimented with metal detectors for a short timefound them a bit frustrating(Gordon 27). Even if all the schools do put in metal detectorsat the front entrances of schools, their are many other way...
