Each state office has a TV Resource Packet of materials that can be shared with you. Provide regular parent education opportunities for PTA members and others to discuss effective discipline. The National PTA web site and Our Children magazine have many resources to assist in such activities. Quotable Quotes Violence is a societal problem which comes to school. Our increasingly violent schools are reflective of an increasingly violent society.
Homicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents.
Young people are injuring and killing one another daily over incidents most of us would consider trivial-an insult, a dispute over a boyfriend or girlfriend, a rumor. Role modeling, peer leadership and social networks can be used to change broader segment of the community and generate a new community ethos about violence. What we really need to do is band together emergency room physicians, primary care physicians, nurses, public health practitioners, teachers, parents, street workers, Sunday school teachers, tenant organizations, political leadership, and the movie, television and radio industries. It has to be a cooperative effort. The entire school community needs to change from a bureaucracy that responds to individual troublemakers to a new community where violence is unlikely to occur.