Violence among teens
Shirley woke up early that Monday morning. She knew what had happened on Saturday and felt very apprehensive about the threat Gail had made. How could she get out of going to school? What would the other kids think of her if she did not show up? Would Gail follow through on her treat? In the most of all her pondering her mother was preparing breakfast and the smell nauseated Shirley. As she marched down stairs her thoughts were more on running away than eating food.
As fictional as this may seem the scenario is more real than fake. Every day some teens go off to school with fear in their hearts. The National Center for Victims of Crime reports that “5.4 percent of high school students report staying home at least one day a month because they fear for their safety.” In the novel Hairstyles of the Damned Gretchen is a bully who beats up every girl who she catches with the guy she loves. Violence among teens is a common theme through out most of the books in Adolescence Literature. The questions I have are who are the perpetrators? What effect does violence have on teens as a whole? To what extent does teen violence go?
Outline
I. Perpetrators of Violence
a. Personality Trait
b. Family Background
c. Causes of Teen Violence
II. Effects of Teen Violence
a. Fear of the Victims
b. Frustrations of the Community
c. Disruption of Learning Ability
III. Extent of Teen Violence
a. Verbal to Physical
b. Gang Related Activity
c. School Riots
d. School Shootings
Teen violence is as American as Apple pie. One group of people have always felt the need to victimize another. Teens seem to have more energy to exercise the physical and verbal actions necessary to bully someone or a group. It may be due to their fear they have of the future or their feeling of inferiority of the oppressed persons. What ever the reason it is common among teens.
Red 2.0
16 years ago
Teen violence is serois today because they we no longer fight with theie fists or words, they bring weapons into it. It is sad but one day soon students will have to walk threw a metal detector to feel some what safe in school. Some schools already do. Gangs really dont seem to be popular anymore but that could just be for the moment. My brother goes to highschool and he says there is a fight 4 out of 5 times a week and teachers sometimes have to put kids in a "sleeper hold" just to have them pass out because kids fight teachers when they get in the way. Violence seems to be over looked and really it should be a main lesson. At my sons school they are already teaching them about bullying and how it is the wrong thing to do. About once a month they have a school group meeting and everyone wears their anti-bully shirt to school. It is sad but i am glad they are teaching kids this young.
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