Teaching past the violence

01-20-2011

Blog by Larry Strauss/Huffington Post

Violence in any school under any circumstances--accidental or not--is intolerable. And yet many of us live with it (the threat and the reality) every day. The accidental shooting of two Gardena High School students here in L.A. is a reminder of the price we pay for urban violence and the degree of terror many of our students face getting to and from school that makes some of them take up arms for self-protection. In years past I've confiscated knives and mace from students and then wondered if they got home all right. My first day as a teacher in South Central, a veteran told me it's not the armed thug you worry about so much as the kid who throws his backpack down on the desk and the gun he's got inside goes off. (more…)

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