Are Students Safe? Essay, Research Paper
Current Event
Are students safe in school anymore? Today two more lives are lost in a school shooting. This time it happened in Arkansas University. It is all under investigation right now, but it appears to be a murder-suicide situation. They still have not given any information on the shooter, but the victims apparently were a professor at the university and a graduate student. How many more lives need to be lost and how many more lives will be lost until the government or someone decides to do something about it. School shootings are becoming a very serious problem and was worse is that they are quickly becoming the new trend. When will someone step in and put a final end to this thing. The counselors are talking about counseling for students who were traumatized because of the accident, but what about counseling students before anything of this magnitude happens. What about finding new was to check students and staff for any weapons. What about getting more securities, metal detectors, more groups that kids can get into and talk about there problems with other kids that they can relate to. May the metal detectors and the securities may seem to some like a jail, but is better to hear students complaining than morning the death of a loved one. Is just that some drastic measures need to be made in order to control the drastic violence growth that has taken over our schools today.