American Decades
Violence in Schools
Media Coverage.
Perhaps more than any other educational issue in the 1990s, the subject of violence in schools made news. A rash of gun violence in seemingly "safe" suburban schools around the country indicated that violence was not just an urban problem. Lobbyists for and against gun control entered into heated debates about the cause of the problem. Hollywood, video games, parents, schools, and lack of religion all were blamed. In a mad search for the solution, few analysts could agree on the root of the problem. For the first time since the early 1970s, violence was seen as one of the major problems in schools according to the annual Gallup poll taken on public attitudes toward the public schools. It topped the list in 1998.
Recurring Pattern.
For years, isolated incidents of killings, shootings, stabbings, and other school violence saddened the country, but were acknowledged more as random acts of evil that were...
[The entire page is 697 words long]
1990's Education
