An education policy that only drives a wedge of distrust deeper between teens and adults is doomed.
Schools can use education to develop more emotionally secure and healthy adolescents.
Societies which generally resort to such measures are considered fear-driven and repressive. The U.S. Department of Education reports that 6,300 students were expelled in the past few years for having firearms at school. We know there is a problem with too many guns, too much violence in media, as well as too many uninvolved parents. But we are also failing to use schools to help teens develop safe and effective lifelong skills for reducing and recovering from emotionally distressing experiences . We can teach skills for preventing painful feelings that plague most adolescents, from erupting into anger and violence.