Putting An End To School Violence

Love Our Children USA speaks out on academy abandon which is a civic crisis.

With the catastrophe of National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week (October 4th -10th) Ross Ellis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Love Our Children USA said “I am admiring that so abounding accept responded to our STOMP Out Bullying attack and BLUE SHIRT Day. Since its barrage in October, 2008, over 54,000 kids and parents accept fabricated the charge to STOMP Out Bullying. And humans above the country wore abject shirts to plan and to school. Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego was a sea of abject as about 2600 kids wore abject shirts to STOMP Out Bullying. But there’s a lot added plan to do to accumulate our kids safe.”

It is affecting to apprehend about the baleful assault of Derrion Albert in Chicago, the advance of a 14 year-old boy in New Jersey who suffered from assorted fractures by three 16 year-old boys who kicked and stomped him, and the 12-year-old boy on Coral Springs, FL who faces first-degree annihilation accuse afterwards allegedly cutting a 13-year-old boy in the aback with a kitchen knife. All of this back academy began one ages ago.

“Violent behavior that robs our accouchement of their childhood, apprenticeship and at times their lives, and continues a aeon of abandon is not acceptable. Parents can no best abide in abnegation if their accouchement are accused of agitated behavior and schools can no best ambit this affair beneath the rug, as they’ve been accomplishing this for far too long” said Ellis.

According to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resources Center, over 5.7 actor accouchement in the U.S. are complex in blowing either as a victim or culprit – or both. That’s 30% of academy kids.

A new CCRC analysis finds that U.S. accouchement are commonly apparent to even added abandon and bribery than has ahead been recognized, with about bisected experiencing a concrete advance in the abstraction year.

The analysis allegation achieve that:
• More than 60 percent of the accouchement surveyed were apparent to abandon aural the accomplished year, either anon or indirectly.
• Nearly one-half of the accouchement and adolescents surveyed were assaulted at atomic already in the accomplished year, and added than 1 in 10 were afflicted as a result.
• Nearly one-quarter of the respondents were the victim of a robbery, vandalism, or theft.
• One-tenth of respondents were victims of adolescent crime (including concrete and affecting abuse, neglect, or a ancestors abduction), and 1 in 16 were victimized sexually.

Violence adjoin accouchement has become a civic crisis. It's not just in Chicago, New Jersey or Miami-Dade, it's all over the country. While schools accept been across-the-board this affair beneath the rug far too long, they have to accomplish behavior and brainwash acceptance on this subject. Schools have to acquaint abandon blockage which covers blowing and cyberbullying into their class – insisting that parents participate in academy committees to accept the class and accompany it into their homes and communities.

And for parents who abide in abnegation adage “My adolescent would never abuse anyone” or worse crop a “so what” attitude, anticipate again. Kids apprentice these behaviors at home. Whether it’s a ancestor who is violent, to a ancestor who handles battle in an affronted and abrogating way, a ancestor who is abounding of abhorrence or to a ancestor who just doesn’t accept the time to be complex in their children’s lives … this is abstruse behavior. What is abstruse can be unlearned.

Ellis states “Ultimately it's up to the acceptance to stop the abandon and actualize violence-free communities in their schools and neighborhoods. But they charge the abutment of their schools and families.

So actual generally humans accomplish comments such as “the kids charge to acclimate up” or anticipate the abandon alone happens in poor neighborhoods. Not accurate said Ellis, “School abandon is no best a appropriate of passage. Our kids are active in a actual altered apple than we did and with the Internet and our adolescence not compassionate the after-effects of their behavior, it’s a absolute problem. Kids anticipate it’s fun to beat anyone up and abode the video of it on YouTube. And, abandon does not discriminate. It can action in poor, average assets and affluent neighborhoods.”

It’s time for parents and schools to plan together, acquaint abandon blockage class into all schools above the country and empower kids to say ENOUGH! No added abandon at academy or in communities.

More advice about bullying. cyberbullying and academy abandon blockage and how to advice your accouchement and acceptance can be begin at www.loveourchildrenusa.org and www.stompoutbullying.org

About Love Our Children USA
Since 1999, Love Our Children USA has paved the way in adolescent abandon blockage as the civic nonprofit baton that honors, respects and protects children. Its mission is to breach the aeon of abandon adjoin children. Love Our Children USA has become ‘the go-to’ blockage alignment for all forms of abandon and carelessness adjoin accouchement in the U.S. Working to annihilate behaviors that accumulate accouchement from extensive their potential, it redefines parenting and creates kid success by announcement blockage strategies and absolute changes in parenting and ancestors attitudes and behaviors through accessible education. Empowering and acknowledging children, teens, parents and families through information, resources, advocacy, and online adolescence mentoring. Its bulletin is absolute ...one of prevention, empowerment and hope. Keeping accouchement safe and deepening families.

About STOMP Out Bullying
STOMP Out Bullying focuses its efforts to abate Bullying and Cyberbullying, abatement academy absence and truancy, brainwash adjoin homophobia and racism and avert abandon in schools, playgrounds and communities above the country. This campaign’s key purpose is to brainwash those kids who are accepting afraid and those who are bullying, that there are choices for them to get help.

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Love Our Children USA
1.888.347.KIDS (5437) / 212.629.2099
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