The Effects Of Youth Violence In The Youth

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Youth violence affects everyone around the United States but more so in Chicago, throughout the years youth violence against each other is at an all-time high. Although there are many articles and videos that have to deal with the violence being out in the streets is that it starts in the schools. Faculty and staff try and push the problems within in the school down making sure they are not seen as that bad, kids fight, people get hurt and the teachers do nothing. There has been an emphasis on school violence. This violence is between students and the violent activity usually takes place outside of the actual school building. Even as these activities are of great concern, violence perpetrated upon teachers and staff is greatly under reported to the public. It smaller forms of violence should be released to people outside the schools, such as parents and other authorities around the area, because then there could be a way to stop it before it became some massive shoot out in the school. If everything continues to go unreported than many schools should expect a bigger backlash of consequences from …show more content…

Stating that even though people are always trying to prevent what violence that might happen in and out of school for youth, that keeping it quiet is not the way to help the youth when it allowing them to get hurt more. A lot of the time people see what they want to see when it comes to youth violence, people go and blame everything in the situation when what could have worked in their favor was fixing exactly what might not even started as a problem to begin with. Students want to always want to learn to do something different in the world but other factors come in to play that might put them in a fast track in the wrong

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