Carl Janowitz, director of counseling for Academy at Swift River in Cummington, Mass., says schools may be too late. The academy is a boarding school for troubled children who have been expelled from their schools or are having trouble at home. The problems that kids have began long before they came to school. The bad kids don't start out being sweet little kids and then suddenly turn into murderers. Parents have to be much more vigilant at an early age.
Parents have to ask lots of questions of their kids.
I believe that kids will communicate if they are asked. Janowitz believes violence prevention should begin as early as kindergarten. Kindergarten teachers are not equipped to spot problems. As a society, it's not in our consciousness that bad behavior starts early. If you have a child that is continually hitting other children, you have an aggressive kid and that needs to be addressed.