An Analysis Of Mv's Peace Policy
It’s pathetic. All of it. Not just the fact that MV cannot maintain even 10 straight days of peace; but that we have a peace policy in the first place.
In the real world, physical assault is a free ticket to the slammer. In the real world, closed fists do not open minds because, in the real world, it is generally known that if words don’t change someone’s mind, violence won’t either.
The first thing that should be taught in school is that violence only ever leads to more violence. It doesn't solve your problems in a way that’s worth solving because when the bruises leave, the lesson does too. The only “lesson” that is taught and retained by an act of violence, is how to hate.
We all know someone that deserves to have a chair slammed over their head. Someone who is so wrong in what they say or do, that hurting them deeply only seems fair. Only seems right. How we …show more content…
It is a start, but not a real fix. It’s not something that belongs on campus, either.
This fix is rather obvious and it seems that the MV administration fell into the age old practice of looking so hard they cannot see. MV does not need a Days of Peace policy. It is not, nor is it ever acceptable, that it should take an incentive to pursue peace. Peace IS the incentive.
MV has taken the wrong approach to fixing the problem of campus violence. The fix is no incentive at all, but enforcement. MV has strict rules on violence, but they are not enforced strictly enough. We let everything slide and yet still wonder how we slipped up. The answer to the MV violence problem has been here the whole time.
The Days of Peace policy needs buried, and perhaps along with it, some of our pride. It was a good idea- if this was kindergarten. But it’s not kindergarten, is it?
The truth is, good idea or not, it should never have had to be thought up at all. It’s demeaning, and rightfully so, for everyone involved. The students AND the
In the real world, physical assault is a free ticket to the slammer. In the real world, closed fists do not open minds because, in the real world, it is generally known that if words don’t change someone’s mind, violence won’t either.
The first thing that should be taught in school is that violence only ever leads to more violence. It doesn't solve your problems in a way that’s worth solving because when the bruises leave, the lesson does too. The only “lesson” that is taught and retained by an act of violence, is how to hate.
We all know someone that deserves to have a chair slammed over their head. Someone who is so wrong in what they say or do, that hurting them deeply only seems fair. Only seems right. How we …show more content…
It is a start, but not a real fix. It’s not something that belongs on campus, either.
This fix is rather obvious and it seems that the MV administration fell into the age old practice of looking so hard they cannot see. MV does not need a Days of Peace policy. It is not, nor is it ever acceptable, that it should take an incentive to pursue peace. Peace IS the incentive.
MV has taken the wrong approach to fixing the problem of campus violence. The fix is no incentive at all, but enforcement. MV has strict rules on violence, but they are not enforced strictly enough. We let everything slide and yet still wonder how we slipped up. The answer to the MV violence problem has been here the whole time.
The Days of Peace policy needs buried, and perhaps along with it, some of our pride. It was a good idea- if this was kindergarten. But it’s not kindergarten, is it?
The truth is, good idea or not, it should never have had to be thought up at all. It’s demeaning, and rightfully so, for everyone involved. The students AND the