totaled about 170 fatalities and many more were wounded plus more that are left with the images burned in their minds (infoplease). With all of these facts, why are children still considered to be innocent and incapable of performing acts of violence like the act listed above? Children are innocent when they are born but it is our society filled with unfiltered violence that allows these violent thoughts to evolve with out teaching alternative ways to express one�s feelings. These thought then become into act by either pushing a peer to going on a massacre on their school.
Every time a television, radio, computer is turned on or when newspaper is opened even going to school, a child see violence every where they go. "Kids grow up with a lack of understanding that life is transient. They get a steady diet of cartoons, movies and TV shows where someone who's killed in one episode shows up in another" is the reason given by David Silber, who teaches psychology of crime and violence at George Washington University This generation does see a lot and many times it is not explained. Generations before we taught by the television shows if they have a problem see an adult, or the adults themselves taught the children that anything on television was not real but make believe. Though with television shows taking off their warnings and a society that makes both parents work just to live, who is teachings these kids the right and wrong way to handle a situation? Its easy to then point a finger at the education system to make them teach it to them, but they cannot as the have a curriculum is filled to the need to past state testing. The best solution is that since every resource a child has is too busy, each resource should take a little time out to teach these children how to deal with violence and how to express their feelings in a productive way. Parents should talk to their children about how they feel and how to deal with it, schools should set aside time a week to the same in a group setting. The television should then go back and advise their viewers what they see is not real. Together our society can work to teach children how to deal with their emotions in order to prevent them from becoming violent.
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