I am really sad inside about everything. My thoughts and prayers are with those kids that I go to school with. I really want people to know the real Mitchell someday. Parents need to talk openly with their children about strategies that will help keep them safe from violent children. The shooting by middle-school children in Arkansas is just another example of threats being made concerning possible violence to other children, and their peers' failure to tell adults.
Statistics confirm that more violent crimes are being committed by increasingly younger children.
These potentially violent children, although not always identified early by adults, are usually known by their peers to be the perpetrators of abuse on other children, who in most cases remain silent. As we now know from the Jonesboro shooting, this failure to talk to teachers or parents about possible threats or children who bully, can turn deadly. There are many contributing factors to teenage and other violence. Let's take for granted the breakdown of shared standards of behavior or social consensus. Today we live in a chemical world.