Efforts to prevent drug abuse can have an impact on decreasing conflict and violence as well. Whether the parents are involved or not, educators need to be aware of the resources for addressing conflict that exist within the school. Parents, children are exposed to both real and simulated depictions of violence and other crime in many ways. They find it on television, in movies, in newspapers, on the radio, on the Internet, in plays, in neighborhoods, in homes, in schools, at athletic events, in video games, in music, on the road, and in many other places. It could happen in your child's school.
Violence knows no urban, suburban, or rural limitations.
It can happen anywhere, like it happened in Littlerock Colorado, Pearl Mississippi, Jonesboro Arkansas, Springfield Oregon, and West Paducah, Kentucky. An opportunity to give back through community service I agree, but, I would also like to see a mention of Religion in there somewhere too. Then people wonder what the problem is today with our youth.