Persuasive Essay: Are We Safe?

Are We Safe?

If you were to walk into a typical school what would you see? You would probably see students, teachers, a resource officer, and school materials. In a student’s eyes you could see a can of dip or a pocket knife that somebody has brought to school faster than a teacher. Do these few things found in school sound safe? Are students within schools nationwide as safe as they can be? It’s likely that you will see many dangerous things in a school. Safety, when Googled, can be defined as “the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.” It is hard to predict everything that is going to happen in life. Preventing safety is hard to do for the future. Many factors in schools can make it unsafe, you could see bullies, aggressive teachers and many other things. For many years,

Most students are not as safe as they could be at school. Extra steps can make a school safer.
Schools protect students, but to a certain extent. You may think how can a student but not safe enough? School systems are there to help prepare a student for a better future. In school you are allowed to go do things on your own. This at times causing no adult supervision which can be dangerous. An article from School Safety: Should schools employ controversial safety measures- such as metal-detector checks and random sweeps with drug-sniffing dogs- in order to combat school violence points out that “[m]aintaining a civilized environment in buildings filled with hundreds of young people is no easy task, school officials say, and a certain amount of aggressive behavior is inevitable.” To put it another way, safety for all students is hard to do, even when there is an official there paid to help