Randi Orris
English 090
Cause and Effect Essay
April 14, 2011
Student Violence
School violence, well it doesn’t start there that is where it ends up. It all starts between the students. Public schools experiencing violent incidents increased from 71 to 81 percent in a five year period. It involves the teen culture the norms and what is going on around them. There are many different places where things can occur but family environment, community environment and school size are the three examples I am going to use. Student violence is a result of the teen culture and environment surrounding the children and young adolescents.
Family environment is a large factor in how kids and adolescents grow up. For example with the current economy it demands parents to work more which means one parent is raising the children and more single parents and teen mothers, which makes these kids liable to parent neglect or physical, sexual, and substance abuse. While the parents are trying to raise their kids right and give them a good future. They are not nurturing and reinforcing positive behavior, when parents fail to do so children develop negative-and often violent behavior matters. As you can see family environment is a key factor but community environment is also a good deal of it.
Community environments have some options for kids but with limiting budgets some key things are getting cut. If the communities are not responsive to the needs of families and their children can develop teens to be out and develop gangs and trouble. When after school and summer programs are not available what are kids supposed to do. Juvenile-justice statistics show that lack of supervision, youth violence rises above average rates between three and seven p.m. with the constant shifting of demographics often reflects larger upheavals as communities undergo changes it size, economic, wellbeing, and racial and ethnic mix. Therefore that is why community environment is...