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Columbine Mepham High School Taft High School Adlai E. Stevenson High School? Law and Public Service?

Columbine Mepham High School Taft High School Adlai E. Stevenson High School? Law and Public Service?. Media and Violence in the Schools. Heather Sheehan Sarah Finucane. What is school violence?. Physical Verbal Sexual. Examples of physical violence: . Play fighting

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Columbine Mepham High School Taft High School Adlai E. Stevenson High School? Law and Public Service?

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  1. ColumbineMepham High SchoolTaft High SchoolAdlai E. Stevenson High School?Law and Public Service?

  2. Media and Violence in the Schools Heather Sheehan Sarah Finucane

  3. What is school violence? • Physical • Verbal • Sexual

  4. Examples of physical violence: • Play fighting • Physical vandalism of school property • Fighting • Bringing weapons to school • Real physical violence

  5. Examples of verbal violence: • Personal putdowns • Racial/Ethnic slurs • Religious slurs • Sexual Orientation • Confrontational language

  6. Examples of Sexual Abuse: • Inappropriate sexual comments • Sexual harassment • Sexual Attack • Rape • Graph to the left shows the percentage of reported sexual attacks against students on school campuses nationwide in the year 2001*

  7. How does the media contribute to school violence? • Newspapers and news shows depict violence on a daily basis. • Students are overloaded with violent images of GUNS WAR DEATH FIGTHING DESTRUCTION

  8. Song lyrics • “These motherfuckers are thinkin I’m playin Thinkin I’m sayin this shit cause I’m thinkin it just to be sayin it. Put your hands down bitch, I ain’t gon’ shoot you. I’ma pull YOU to this bullet, and put it through you” -Eminem

  9. Role Models? • Many artists use violent, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, lyrics in their songs. Promotes violence as a solution

  10. Magazines and Music Videos • Market aggressive persona towards teens • Depict role models in aggressive, antagonistic light • Glorify ‘street life’ and violence as ‘keepin’ it real’

  11. Movies and TV Shows • Most teen movies contain gratuitous violence of some form • Glamorize guns and other weapons • Make violence seem commonplace

  12. Impact? • Students become desensitized to violence • View violence as a means to resolve conflicts • Lose respect for property and human life • See violent behavior as something to be emulated

  13. Impact • In 1996 270,000 students brought a gun to school ** • In 1999, 82% of homicide victims 15 to 19 years old were killed with firearms* • In 2000, more than 400,000 youth ages 10-19 were injured as a result of violence*

  14. How violence affects school culture;the cycle of conflict • Schools built like prisons • Metal detectors • Clothing rules • Bathroom regulations • Classroom confrontations • Yelling – students and teachers

  15. How can educators promote and support a positive change? • Preventing School Violence: Policies for Safety, Caring, and Achievement * • Pay attention to the signs* • Warning Signs For Parents* • Mediate your classroom media time • Introduce alternative solutions to violence; help students become responsible • Remember-promoting safe schools is everyone’s business! Equation safe homes + safe communities= Safe Schools

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