English II Essay

Catina Carter

Sean Munro

English 102-WMA

3 March 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Duplechain, Rosalind. & Morris, Robert. School violence: Reported school shootings

and making schools safer. Education. 135(2): 145-150.

As a result of high number of shooting in schools in the United States, Duplechain and Morris conducted this research to specifically identify behaviors and risk factors of school shooters and how to create safer schools. From their article, the risk and behavior factors include bullying around the school, the individual, family and societies, past relationships traumas and brain development. In creating safer schools, the article purports that entry points to schools should be limited and controlled, availing wireless panic alarms, strategically placing telephones, establishing relationship between school officials and law enforcement and parents should advocate for school safety.

In an aim to determine ways that school shooting can be stopped, the authors have managed to capture the audience by touching their feelings while discussing individuals, family and society. They also used the ethical dimension of mentioning bullying. A lot of logic has also been utilized through citing facts on shooting and giving recommendations thereafter. This resource will be helpful in my essay by providing comprehensive points on diagnosing why school shootings take place as well as providing solutions for these factors.

Chaddock, Gail Russel. A radical step for school safety (Cover story). Christian Science

Monitor. 2000, 92(36). p. 1.

The article talks about how districts have begun to use students’ psychological profiles to prevent violence in classrooms. However, this is criticized as it may undermine the learning climate in an institution. But since the shooting in 1999 in Littleton, Colo, administrators have prioritized the safety of children in schools and have adopted the psychological profiling. In some institutions though, it has been associated with racial bias while a growing number of school officials believe that profiling is very appropriate and necessary.

The arguments of authors are influenced by the ethics behind the use of psychological profiling by most law enforcement agencies in terms of fairness. The argument also takes into account the use of emotion in describing school violence so as to inspire the audience in accepting the new system. This resource will contribute to my research by introducing the use of psychological profiling of students as a way of preventing classroom violence.

Harris, Elizabeth. Changes to tracking of school violence. New York Times. 2016,

166(57446):25.

This article examines the important aspects of school safety panning on violence in schools in United States so as to establish safer schools. The article describes the national mandate for safe school planning by passing the Safe School Act 1994, putting the safety of schools first priority of the major strategic commitments and development of school safety plans. The authors also recommended various safety school options which include general preventive security measures to reduce the chances of violence occurring. In addition, the authors have discussed strategies for staff preparation in handling violence incidences.

The views in the article have been influenced by the changing educational climate that has resulted to many challenges. As well, the authors in this resource have used a language that is quite appropriate for both the topic and the audience and lastly, dwelling on the history of school violence has influenced the remedies described by the author. This resource is very essential for the study since it will help understand the need to prevent violence in schools as well as providing the relevant remedies.

Glasner, Barry. School violence: The fears, the facts. New York Times. 1999, 148(51613):

21.

The main purpose of this article is describing the school violence in United States way back in the 90s and how it has been improved. From the article, before 1990s, the rate of school shooting and violence was exhibiting a gradual increase from time to time. This increased into the 90s when America still witnessed a number of school violence. However, the safety of students in schools is reestablishing due to the fundamental juvenile justice system of separating jailed juvenile offenders from adult criminals. This bill was introduced by Representative Bill McCollum who believed that juveniles are not bad criminals; they are just kids who should be protected from being turned into worse criminals by the more experienced inmates.

Ethically, the arguments in this article were made with respect to expertise in law with the use of perfect grammar. The author used the experience and suffering of Juveniles to argue the above case. Logically, the author used statistics of school violence in United States to express why violence should be prevented. This resource will contribute to my topic of study since it contains information on how violence in schools has been prevented in the past.

Works Cited

Chaddock, Gail Russel. A radical step for school safety (Cover story). Christian Science

Monitor. 2000, 92(36). p. 1.

Duplechain, Rosalind. & Morris, Robert. School violence: Reported school shootings and

making schools safer. Education. 135(2): 145-150.

Duplechain, Rosalind. & Morris, Robert. School violence: Reported school shootings and

making schools safer. Education. 135(2): 145-150.

Glasner, Barry. School violence: The fears, the facts. New York Times. 1999, 148(51613):

21.

Harris, Elizabeth. Changes to tracking of school violence. New York Times. 2016,

166(57446):25.