We need to get the information to the people who need it. One district concluded that the community needed diversity training. The School Board approved a program and people went into the community to act as consultants and spoke to children. In other words, there need to be more interactions between the community, school officials and students. We can try to help the public with prevention activities.
People are very reactive now.
At one time, police were in schools to educate and serve as a resource. Now they come in to monitor behavior and enforce school rules. It is a different atmosphere. As an organizations we can encourage greater inclusion of organization like police departments so that they can help to identify their proactive roles as resources and we can suggest that more attention be given to prevention activities. We have allowed politicians to drive what is happening in schools.