The Causes of School Violence
School violence is only a recent thing. Roughhousing among teenagers in high school has always been prevalent, however, its extreme forms such as taking out vendettas against students or teachers or bringing deadly weapons to school have only risen in existence in the past thirty years. Now some have placed the blame on the violent video games, television and bad music. The first notable high school shootings didn't happen until the 1970's (Centennial Secondary School, St. Pius X High School), and it's not likely that the video game Pong was turning these kids into homicidal maniacs. As for the music, heavy metal and rap were only a vague concept in the early seventies, but they did not rise to large popularity until the mid-eighties. Television, well known during this time for being very violent (Kung Fu, Kojak), it still seems unlikely as there were only two incidents in the 1970s. For those reasons, these early crimes could not have been linked to......

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Title: The Causes Of School Violence
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