In our society the school has become more than simply a place for the 3 R s.
Students spend more time in and around school than in any other setting, including their own homes.
Welcomed or not, school officials of every stripe have been thrust into a key role in dealing with societal violence. The management skills required in the classroom, on school grounds and across boards have been trans-formed by the unfortunate emergence of violence as a cultural norm in the school setting . These may be sociological questions but they have inextricable legal components. For the rest of society it may be possible to merely study school violence from a comfortable distance. Our Legal Strategies to STOP School Violence conference is designed to help you build that action plan.