Nixon-Paquin1 Amber Nixon-Paquin English I-Block I Ms.

Knowles 30 January 2014 Exploratory Essay School Violence: My personal Experience Sometimes people just do not think before they act, they do not think before they commit terrible crimes and expect to get away with it. Not only did Charles Manson kill nine people, he did many other crimes like substance and drug abuse and prostitution and fighting. People hear about news like this, most of the time it is children and teens in school that look up to all of the wrong people and act like them. Participating in school violence incidences may and can impact your future, causing you to drop out of school or slack in school; this resulting in university and college application rejects. Like many people at my school I have fought when I was in fifth grade a few months before becoming a sixth grader. I thought fighting was cool and if you got into fights people would like you. I was very wrong. It was on a street in New York, of all places, right? It was near dusk and I was in a chaotic mood. I was pacing the streets of my neighborhood, with another person, my acquaintance Naz. Clammy summer sweat was building in the clenched palms of my hands. I forget why I was irritated when I saw Lequisha, something on my mind told me to leave her alone and the other half was telling me to start something. I clenched my lips shut like a vice grip on an overly tight nut and bolt.

Nixon-Paquin2 Wachu hangin wit that (censored) for Naz? She spat the words from her lips coldly; her lips wrinkled up in a sneer and her eyes hard and frosty like ice. I grab a fistful of my shirt and walk by her ignoring the arrogant comments that bore from her forsaken lips. Naz followed and the girl sped up behind us. She tapped my shoulder and was jabbing her finger into the back of my neck, an enflamed feeling was left over when her bony finger recedes from my back when I moved away. Hey (censored), why do you feel special enough to walk with him? Youre just a loser with a pathetic mother. She breathed the words onto my face leaving small droplets of saliva on my cheek. I kept on walking as my heart sped up and my blood pressure rises. Hey Im talkin to you girl, why do you feel so special?! She pushes my back causing me to trip on the ground. I feel a fiery sharp pain on my lip, subsequently tasting a warm, thick, and crimson and potent substance seeping into my mouth. I was so mad it made me whip around and whack her in her face and she stumbles backward and her face wrinkles like an ugly pug. Imma get my sister on you! You freakin white piece of trash! She says while fleeing like a coward blood dripping from her nose with Naz at her back. He was such a back stabber.

During my initial research on school crimes and violence located on NCES (National Center for Education and Science), I discovered that most school violence proceeds to reflect in the vast majority of the male middle school and high school population of students from 12-18, this leading to violent tragedies that happened in elementary and secondary schools in the United States; There have also been multiple homicides and a few suicides from July 2010- June 2011. There has been 1.9 million violence crimes reported by principals which is some every 40 crimes

Nixon-Paquin3 per every 1,000 students enrolled in 2009-10. In that same year about 60% of schools one of the precise crimes to the police, equating to about 689,000 crimes-or 15 crimes per 1,000 students registered in that school system. In 2011 approximately 28% of students ages 12 to 18 reported being bullied at school during the school semesters. Of the students who reported being picked on or bullied on campus or during school, about 8% have reported they were pushed, shoved, tripped, or spit on. In 2011 around 21% of students who have been physically bullied during school year had reported being injured for a result of the incidences. I never really thought through how much guilt that one person could carry, even almost four years later. I still hold guilt in a cloud above my head and every day I still think about how much of a hypocrite I was because I fled away after she fled away, for her sister was a tenth grader and I was only a fifth and a half grader. So much could be brought on you if one decides to be a trouble maker, so much, even if you decide to move more than five states away. There is violence everywhere. The most violence starts at a young age; I see most violence happen in schools. Last year there were over five fights at Loris middle. My heart aches every time I find myself in trouble because I remember that one time, that very first time; it caused so much regret and pain. Maybe even a little bit of loss because I feel I left behind a little of my pride back then and there. Being a trouble maker doesnt get you anywhere, especially if you want to find yourself with lots of money and a good education in the future. Lets get this straight, a college will not accept and application from a trouble maker unless there are extreme circumstances, or you are a changed man or woman that can prove that you are a different person. People should learn to mind their own business and talk or comment when it is the proper time to. We should all invest in a school violence educator because one day thats just what we may need, in order to show stubborn and ignorant children. This could be a way to prevent the students from cutting up

Nixon-Paquin4 in school and teach the students to respect themselves, their peers, and the teachers and/or just school in general. We could all stop fights and prevent them from happening if we spent more time getting along and less time causing trouble. I want to learn more on how to prevent school violence in pre-teens and adolescents because it could really help any campus in the U.S. if they had help.