Overview
Why Perception and Reality Don't Match
Where Does School Violence Come From?
Are Girls Violent Too?
Solving the Problem
Test Your Knowledge
Okay, let's see how much you know. Be sure to select an answer for each question. Good luck!
Name: 1. Which of the following increased in U.S. schools over the past ten years?
A. Non-fatal victimization B. Fights on school property C. Bullying D. Weapon-carrying on school property
2. True or False? In response to the general decline in school violence, students today feel safer in school than they did in the 1990s.
A. True B. False
3. What factors influenced student perceptions concerning the safety of their schools?
A. The frequency of school-related shootings B. Intensified school security measures C. Gangs and drugs in schools D. Bullying
4. True or False? The incidence of violent behavior among girls has increased nearly four times as fast as it has for boys in the past ten years.
5. True or False? Most school violence originates in the neighborhoods served by the school, not the school itself.
6. True or False? A survey of 15,000 teens found that 75 percent of boys and 60 percent of girls reported that they had hit someone in anger in the preceding 12 months.
7. Which of the following reasons contributes to the reality that carrying a weapon on school grounds will NOT make you safer?
A. You're more likely to be caught with it and expelled or jailed than you are to use it. B. You are likely to resort to the weapon when the situation would have been better dealt with through reasoned response C. If you back an assailant down with a lesser weapon--a club, for instance--he's likely to have a knife or gun at your next encounter D. It is all but certain that using a weapon in any school encounter will constitute a crime that would send you to jail E . All of the above.
8. True or False? It is unwise to confront a bully head-on.
9. You've believed from your grade school days that it's wrong to tattle on a fellow student. You see someone being bullied. Should you ignore it rather than break the student code of silence?
A. Yes. Better to feel a bit guilty about watching someone being attacked unjustly than to break this time-honored taboo. B. No. That's childish. Mature people report wrongdoing to the proper authorities. They don't endorse it by their silence.
10. Which of the following is NOT a sign that someone may be at risk for becoming violent?
A. He frequently loses his temper B. He often is absent from school or cuts classes C. He commits serious property damage D. He takes a lot of risks E. He increases his use of alcohol or drugs.
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