Violence In School

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Violence In School

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Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97
Executive Summary
No matter where you are, parents want their students to be safe and secure& that might even precede a quality education& With drugs, gangs, and guns on the rise in many communities the threat of violence weighs heavily on most principals' minds these days&Anyone who thinks they are not vulnerable is really naïve. (Principal Michael Durso, Springbrook High School, as quoted in the Washingtonian Magazine, September 1997).
Background
Recent events have again focused the nation's attention on violence in U.S. public schools, an issue that has generated public concern and directed research for more than two decades.1 Despite long-standing attention to the problem, there is a growing perception that not all public schools are safe places of learning, and media reports highlight specific school-based violent acts. The seventh goal of the National Education Goals states that by the year 2000, all schools in America will be free of drugs and violence and the unauthorized presence of firearms and alcohol, and offer a disciplined environment that is conducive to learning. In response to this goal, the Congress passed the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994, which provides for support of drug and violence prevention programs. As part of this legislation, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is required to collect data to determine the frequency, seriousness, and incidence of violence in elementary and secondary schools. NCES responded to this requirement by commissioning a survey, the Principal/School Disciplinarian Survey on School Violence, 1996-97, the results of which are detailed in this report.
The school violence survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,234 regular public elementary, middle, and secondary schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the spring and summer of 1997. The survey requested information on four main topics:
· The incidence of crime and violence that occurred in public schools during the 1996-97 academic year;
· Principals' (or school disciplinarians') perceptions about the seriousness of a variety of discipline issues in their schools;
· The types of disciplinary actions schools took against students for serious offenses; and
· The kinds of security measures and violence prevention programs that were in place in...

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