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Creating And Maintaining A Safe Environment In The Public High School : A Reflective Essay, Chris Anderson
Creating And Maintaining A Safe Environment In The Public High School : A Reflective Essay, Chris Anderson
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School violence is an unfortunate fact of life in our society. Administrators need to consider multiple variables when deciding how to deal with violence in their building. The climate of the community must be taken into consideration. In a large metropolitan school with a history of violence, measures such as metal detectors and armed security guards may be justified. At a rural school such measures might be considered an overreaction. Furthermore, in this age of shrinking budgets an administrator may have difficulty justifying expenditures for metal detectors and guards in a school without a history of violence. The answer for …