SCHOOL SAFETY

School Safety

SCHOOL SAFETY

School Safety

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School Safety

Introduction

The world is continuously evolving in term of high impacted factors such as social, and environmental on children's chance to be safe at school. Parents want to send their students to best educational institutions where they can feel their children are safe. Therefore, school safety is now a prime importance and concern for the parents as well as the school owners and teachers. Parents are too busy to their work and other commitment that they are unable to supervise or participate with their children being involved in the activities while they are at schools.

Discussion

The debate pertaining to the safety of schools is one that has been raging on for countless years. Nonetheless, there is no denying that parents and children perceive schools to be less safe now than they did in the past. The reasons for this decrease in faith in the security of the schooling system are the shootouts that have taken place in public schools in the last few years. Innocent students have been murdered in these massacres (Anderson & Bushman, p. 355). Such incidents have made it clear that modern day schools are exposed to two forms of dangers when it comes to school safety. The first form of danger is that which comes from the external threat to the school's safety, while the second form of danger comes from the internal threat to the school's safety. This paper will attempt to shed light on the generally exercised methodologies that schools adopt in order to ensure school safety. In the process, the paper will seek to highlight how the modern day threat to school safety comes from internal factors just as much as it does from external factors.

According to government reports, violence in schools experienced an increase in the 1990s. These involved violations of school safety within the school premises as well as violence to and/or from the school premises. This led to the development of three forms of security implemented by school authorities. Modern day school safety issues include the following: (a) physical plant and security accommodations, (b) school-wide discipline and classroom management plans, and (c) curricular interventions.

The recent increase in concern over school safety has led to a trend in which school administrations have chosen to take on an aggressive approach towards the assurance of school safety. They have sought to equip their schools with the technological advantage that is required to keep schools and school children safe. Schools now choose to make use of weapon detectors and security cameras around the clock in order to ensure security. In addition, the school administrations have also developed stronger ties with law enforcement authorities. Schools that are based on expansive campuses have now taken a pro-active approach in which they have chosen to increase the number of security personnel in and outside their facilities.

However, while tangible measures may be adding to school safety, research has shown that the school safety rests in the relationship that exists between students and ...