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School Violence

When just walking away doesn't work, what can cause a bullied child to resort to violence? And what happens to the bullied victims who don't respond with violence? How does the school system foster - end even enable - bullies? Why are victims so often ignored until it's too late?

As we go about our day-to-day lives, a preventable cancer spreads within the walls of America's public schools. This malignancy, embraced by students and teachers alike, threatens to destroy generations of our nation's youth - unless a drastic and immediate remedy is prescribed.

Our culture espouses strength and intimidation as characteristics to be admired, but society is repulsed when those dominating traits lead to acrid hate and vengeful bloodshed. The resulting anguish causes a myriad of seemingly unanswerable questions. The truth is that the answers do exist, but they require a depth of probing that society is often too busy to pursue.

In the articles below, you will find an exploration of the issues that cause bullying in America's schools. More important than that are the thought-provoking solutions to which you will be exposed, solutions intended to curtail the violence our children face.

Not to be missed, these articles delve into the evil that pervades in school hallways and classrooms. Consider these statistics:

Thirty percent of teenagers admit to having been involved in bullying, as either victim or bully, while in a recent study published in The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 45 percent of teachers surveyed admitted to bullying students at one time or another. What makes these statistics even more disturbing is the fact that bullying has been determined to be the cause of violence in 75 percent of school shootings, while up to 87 percent of students believe that violence in schools is primarily a way for those who have been bullied to take revenge on their abusers.

The answers to this insidious problem do exist, but they aren't ones you might expect - nor are they easy to implement. Regardless, the cancer must be stopped. Our children are worth it. So, too, are the lives of those that bullied victims will continue to take if we don't do something about it.

This series of articles will challenge you in ways you never imagined.

Articles

The Cho Factor Series

Part I, Let the Discussion Begin: School Violence

Part II, A Soul Without Purpose: An Undisputed Truth

Part III, The Great Copout — "Evil": Social Philosophy

Part IV, No Other Option: School Shootings

Part V, Victims and Victimizers: Reducing the Rampage

Part VI, Quiet Suffering: The Outcasts

Part VII, Prime Targets: The School Bully

Part VIII, Our Automaton Psyches: Don't Rock the Boat

Part IX, Eliminating the Two-Headed Snake of The American Education System

Part X, Changing the Focus: Stop Bullying

Part XI, Preparing the Playing Field: Playground Games

Part XII, Time Out for Clarification: One Step at a Time

Part XIII, Time Out for Clarification, (cont.): School Bullying

Part XIV, The Best Parent: The Welcome Mat

Part XV, The School Principal/Principle Problem

Part XVI, The Transition: How We Live

Part XVII, How to Play the Game

Part XVIII, The Option of Choice: Play the Game

Part XIX, The Good and the Bad of Certitudes: The Moral Pendulum

Part XX, Winking at Hypocrisy

Part XXI, Intolerant Sheep: Bullying in School

Part XXII, The Blur in the Mirror: Conformity versus Non-Conformity

Part XXIII, Rings of the Caste System

Part XXIV, The Brigadoon High Experience

Part XXV, The Inner Ring Royalty: Who Makes Up the Inner Circle?

Part XXVI, Life After Brigadoon: High School Graduation

Part XXVII, Outcasts by Choice

Part XXVIII, A Whole New World

Part XXIX, Class Reunion Warmup

Part XXX, At Long Last: The High School Reunion

Part XXXI, Jocks Rule: High School Sports

Part XXXII, Poor Baby?: Bullying at School

Part XXXIII, No Child Left Unscarred

Part XXXIV, Business As Usual

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