School Violence-Finding Solutions
December 1, 1997, Michael Carneal, a freshman in West Paducah, Kentucky opened fire on his classmates, killing three and wounding five. One year later, on March 5, 1998, Mitchell Woodward shot and killed five classmates and wounded eleven in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Just one year after that, Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold committed the most heinous act of school violence in United States history in Littleton, Colorado. There, in Columbine High school, Harris and Kleibold killed twelve students, a teacher and later took their own lives. Random acts of school violence seemed to spread across the nation undetected, and protecting no one.
These events occurred only a few years ago, and it is important for college students to recognize the issue of school violence as problem that must not go unnoticed. While for the most part, college campuses are isolated from the incidents of violence that engulf many high schools and middle schools, it is possible......

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Title: School Violence
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