This can help school officials assess the existence of gangs in the neighborhood, and anticipate and prevent their formation in the school. Offer educational programs for students about gangs, their destructiveness, and how to avoid being drawn into them, preferably in small groups where they can express their feelings comfortably. Though the above steps offer no magical solution for eliminating gangs, they offer valuable interventions that may make gangs appear less attractive and prepare individual students to more effectively resist gang pressure to join with them. Gangs and schools. Membership in violent gangs fed by suspicion, deterred through respect.
Schools respond to gangs and violence.
William Gladden Foundation. This Digest was developed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education with funding from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, under contract no. The opinions expressed in this Digest do not necessarily reflect the position or policies of OERI or the Department of Education. ERIC Digest 99.