Violence In Schools Essay

Violence in schools can be caused by numerous factors namely domestic abuse, overcrowded schools, gang activities, anger issues and more. Evidently there is not one main cause of this violence but it is a multifaceted issue that we have to carefully ascertain before we can have a handle on the problem. We can look at school violence from two perspectives, on individual or social risk factors. Some of the individual factors can be low self-esteem, performing badly in school which causes them to “act out”. On the other hand it can be social factors such as unstable home, domestic, physical or sexual abuse, exposure to weapons at home or in the community, involvement in gangs.

Violence in schools was not a critical and crucial problem in Trinidad

Their aim was to lessen the amount of violence happening and to decrease the airing of such incidents on social medias. However, it was announced by the Education Minister that the cell phone policy needed to be review. With this policy being reviewed, there is a win-lose situation that can arise out of this, since children are entitled to their constitutional rights to contact their parents in cases of emergencies. In essence even if they ban the use of cell phones in schools, some parents can argue on those grounds. As much, the National Parents Teachers Association, Carlyle Green said the Association believes the total banning of cell phones should be done across all schools. However, my concerns are before cell phones became popular parents used to be contacted by landlines at the school, or from pay phone booths if there were emergencies. Evidently, not all students use their cell phones for the right reasons; else the number of school fights uploaded to social medias would not have been in existence or so popular. It is appalling to see students of schools in Trinidad and Tobago using social medias to display information and actions that is not beneficial to them or their schools, but instead tarnishes the reputation of the school and the