School Violence in America

Sixteen year old Nicholas Elliot of Virginia Beach, Virginia opened fire on his school with a semi automatic pistol in 1987;he said someone had called him a racist name. Fourteen year old James Alan Kearby of Goddard, Kansas killed the principal and three others within his school on January twenty-first of 1985. Afterward, he reported that he had been brutally bullied and beaten for years proceeding the shooting. After being teased about his weight, twelve year old Nathan Farris of DeKalb, Missouri shot a classmate and then himself on 1987. In 1997, fourteen year old Joseph Todd of Stamps, Arkansas shot two students; he claimed to have been humiliated by teasing. (Dedman, “Bullying, Tormenting Often Led to Revenge in Cases Studied”).Is this what should be happening in America’s schools? Should students have to be more concerned with their safety, rather than obtaining a good education? Incidences similar to the ones just described occur every year in school systems across the cou...