Why Is It Important To Respond To Violence In Schools?

Education has an important place in the lives of children, families, and society. Among their many functions, schools are required to provide a safe learning environment for students.
In more recent times, however schools are increasingly required to highlight the importance of safety measures and plan for responses to violence and threats of violence. It is difficult to assess the level of safety measures that may be required in potentially dangerous situations. There also needs to be protocol in place on how to react to situations when students engage in less dangerous but still problematic behaviours.

I believe that there may be tensions between the obligations of schools to provide a safe learning environment and the need for young people to have opportunities to learn social rules, solve problems, and work through conflicts. Many schools have attempted to implement zero tolerance discipline policies. While zero tolerance policies are implemented with the safety of students and adults in the environment in mind, the negative side of this is that a student who is not dangerous to others can be excluded from the school environment through suspension or expulsion. Suspension from school has been linked to school dropout rates. There has also been insufficient evidence that
This is an approach that addresses the needs of both the victim(s) and the offender(s). This alternate approach has been found to be positive in reducing school violence or disruptive behaviours. Restorative justice involves the notion that people are connected with one another and this connection needs to be restored when it is broken. So by using a restorative approach, a student is held accountable for behaviour and agrees to make some sort of amends or reparation for that behaviour. Conversation and dialogue I believe are an essential part of that restorative