Ryan Grusechi Romeo High School Many say that violence comes from teasing. This may be true, but kids have been getting teased for years. I think many kids just need to get a sense of humor. Besides, if someone makes a joke toward a kid, the teased kid should maybe tell a joke back. At most, the children should have a good old-fashioned fistfight outside the school, get suspended and be back in school playing kick ball the next week.
Adults are the biggest cause of school violence.
If you bring your child up right, even if he or she gets teased, the child knows he or she doesn't have to shoot up a place to deal with problems. For two years, Brighton High has held a Tolerance Day during the first three hours of school. This provides the students with speakers, class activities, and movies to inform students of the diverse world in which we live. If we can learn to be more open-minded about others' differences, someday we'd recognize how similar we all are. Such activities may be only a small step, but the more we concentrate on a solution, the more we learn to fix the problem.