In the School System, Student's Safety vs. Student's Privacy

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In today's school system, there have been uproars about the student's privacy and safety at the schoolhouse. Some parents feel that their child's safety is more important because of the rules that the school has set forth to maintain a safe environment. Others feel that their child's privacy should be taken seriously because they should be treated more like an adult. In recent news, there has been concerns about the student's safety that cause some to get injured or killed; while, student's privacy has cause the police to get involved. The school system should be concerned as well as, aware about the student’s privacy and safety at their prospective school. The main focus with the school system is for each and everyone to feel safe. Every school has a safety plan that they must follow if something goes wrong at the school. When a child first enters school they do not expect to be in dangerous situations that may be life threatening. December 14, 2012 was a horrible day for the people of Newton, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School. On this day, 20-year old Adam Lanza killed his mother, twenty children, six adults, and himself. Adam Lanza was a pedophile whose idea of having sex with kids was to gun them down. Reporter Michael Daly said, “He also had a POV video game called School Shooter that allows the player to gun down students with gruesome results. In the game, the shooter wears fingerless black gloves, just like Dylan Klebold did at the Columbine High School massacre that the report says Lanza was fixated on. ” Also, before arriving at Sandy Hook, there were some reports of Adam showing worrisome signs as repetitive behaviors, temper tantrums, smelling things that were not there, excessive hand washing and eating ... ... middle of paper ... ... the school system is working with the community to create a safety plan where each of their faculty and staff and students can feel and be in a safer environment, and also, with student’s privacy they will keep the usage of lockers to a minimum as well as a search of the lockers. Works Cited T. Rees ShapiroJustin, Jouvenal. "Pistol is found in student's locker." Washington Post, The July 0012: Newspaper Source. Web. 13 May 2014. Pitman, Michael D. "Drugs found in student's locker." Middletown Journal (OH) 27 Feb. 2013: Newspaper Source. Web. 13 May 2014. "Students detained after guns found in high school." American School & University [Online Exclusive] 10 Apr. 2008. Gale Power Search. Web. 13 May 2014. BRYDOLF, CAROL. "Preparing For The Unthinkable: School Safety After Sandy Hook." Education Digest 79.3 (2013): 4.MasterFILE Premier. Web. 13 May 2014.

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