Saint John Mary International SchoolGuidance and Counseling Department

Mr. Jun AmparoSJMIS Counselor

SCHOOL VIOLENCE PREVENTION

What are the risk factors associated with violent behavior? Why do individuals harm themselves and others when they are angry, fearful or hurting? How is it possible to live a violence-free life?

TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL VIOLENCE

CONSIDER THIS THOUGHT

The Sick Person and the Bad Person

Sick Person: His character is not assassinated; the physician diagnosed the patient, give appropriate medication and /or treatment plan

Bad Person: character is assassinated and we labeled the person as “bad”. And they will live into it.

One student is always being shouted at home. He was also labeled by the teacher as lazy, always late, unmotivated to study, disruptive inside the classroom. The character is indeed assassinated! And so he lived into it.

A STRIKING PARADIGM

Hospital: a place for treatment or place for punishment?

Jail: place for treatment or place for punishment? (young people never get actually treated!) Understanding is good but it is not enough, or sympathy is OK but it is not enough.

Teachers, principals, school counselors and administrator has a big role in helping the students. (school Isolation is OK, washing the dishes in cafeteria is OK, withdrawing the dorm privilege is OK, but we need more methodologies to address sick of aggression)

Sample Life Management Skills: -anger management

-peer mediation-bullying

-developing social skills-winning friends

WHAT ARE THE RISK FACTOR OF A HEART DISEASE?

High cholesterol Smoking and

family history Alcohol Stress Drugs Lack of exercise High blood

pressure and others

RISK FACTOR FOR VIOLENCE

PRESCRIPTION

Consider this:

If you are doctor and you gave prescription to a patient, but he is very uncooperative and didn’t take his/her medication then you do your part. I understand that teachers are doing their best effort to help the kids. Most of these students are smart enough to give you the answer that you are expected from them

Almost same students came to discipline issues because they are uncooperative

1. trying to protect their friends2. Lack of social skills3. Problems at home4. Negative influence of media

School Killers: The List

January 1979 — Brenda Spencer, 17, got a rifle for Christmas and used it to shoot into an elementary school across the street from her home in San Diego, California. Eight children and a police officer were injured, and two men lost their lives protecting the kids.

March 2, 1987 — Nathan Ferris, 12, was an honor student in Missouri, where he finally got tired of being teased. He brought a pistol to school and when a classmate made fun of him, he killed the other boy. Then he turned the gun on himself.

November 15th, 1995 — Jamie Rouse, 17, dressed in black, went into Richland School in Giles County, Tennessee, with a .22-calibre Remington Viper. He shot two teachers in the head, one of them fatally. Then with a smile, he took aim at the football coach, but a female student walked into his path and was killed with a shot to the throat.

• February 2, 1996 —. His first victim was 14-year-old Manuel Vela, who later died. Another classmate fell with a bullet to his chest, and then Loukaitis shot his teacher in the back as she was writing a problem on the blackboard. A 13-year-old girl took the fourth bullet in her arm. Then the shooter took hostages, allowing the wounded to be removed, but was stymied by a teacher who rushed him and put an end to the irrational siege. In all, three people died, and Loukaitis blamed "mood swings." A classmate claimed that Loukaitis had thought it would be "fun" to go on a killing spree.

• February 2, 1996 — David Dubose, Jr., 16, killed a teacher in a school hallway in Atlanta, Georgia.

• January 27, 1997 — Tronneal Mangum, 13, shot and killed another student in front of their school.

February 19, 1997 — Evan Ramsey, 16, went to Bethel High School in Alaska with a shotgun. This is the place where other kids called him "retarded" and "spaz." He killed a boy with whom he'd argued and then injured two other students. Then he went to the administration office and shot the principal, Ron Edwards, killing him instantly

October 1, 1997 — Luke Woodham, 16, worshipped Adolph Hitler, perhaps because it made him feel powerful in light of the bullying he received from classmates in Pearl, Mississippi. When his girlfriend broke up with him, he went into a rage. He slashed and stabbed his mother that morning, then went to school with a rifle and a pistol. Right away he killed his former girlfriend and then another girl. Yet he didn't stop there. Seven other students were wounded before he ran out of ammunition. He returned to his car for his other gun, and that's where the assistant principal disarmed him. He complained that the world had wronged him and he just couldn't take it anymore.

• December 1, 1997 — Michael Carneal, 14, liked to wear black and was thought by classmates in Paducah, Kentucky, to be a Satanist. That morning, he brought a gun to school and opened fire on a small prayer group. Three girls died and five other students were wounded. Another student tackled him, and it was soon revealed that Carneal had a pistol, two rifles, and two shotguns, along with 700 rounds of ammunition, all of it stolen. He'd threatened earlier to "shoot up" the school, but no one had taken him seriously.

• March 24, 1998 - Andrew Golden, 11, and his gun buddy, Mitchell Johnson, 13, dressed in camouflage fatigues and then gunned down fifteen people at the Westside Middle School playground in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Five died, all of them female and four were children. The boys had a van stocked full of ammunition and guns, which they took from their kin. Golden went into the school and set off a fire alarm, then ran to where Johnson lay in position with the rifles. As people filed out for the fire drill, the boys began shooting.

• April 24, 1998 — Andrew J. Wurst, 14, liked to threaten other people and then laugh it off. However, no one was laughing when he took a pistol into the eighth-grade graduation dance in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and killed a popular teacher. Then he opened fire into the crowd, wounding another teacher and two classmates before he ran out. The banquet hall owner went after him, disarmed him, and held him for police, but the boy acted as if the whole thing was a big joke.

•May 21, 1998 — Kipland Kinkel, 15, had just been expelled from school in Springfield, Oregon, for carrying a gun to class. He returned with a semiautomatic rifle and went into the cafeteria, where he started shooting. He killed one student and wounded eight others, one of whom later died, and he also caused a stampede that resulted in more injuries. He was disarmed and taken to the police station, where he withdrew a hidden knife. He claimed he wanted to die. Police officers who went to his home discovered that he'd killed both of his parents and had booby-trapped the house with five homemade bombs—one of which he'd placed underneath his mother's corpse. His classmates had once dubbed him the student "most likely to start World War III."

How about our school1. One student hits another student

because he doesn’t like him2. Another student hit one student

because he doesn't like the way he stare at him

3. Another student hit because one student says bad words

4. Two girls fight because of gossiping 5. Another students harm herself and

she has bruises on her wrist

"They're like little match sticks waiting to be lit““They are like a balloon ready to pop!”

For example:Soccer field incident – a student was trying to

separate and mediate the two students who were fighting. His intention was good. However, during the act of separating the two fighter, he was accidentally hit by another student. Then he became upset and hit the student as well. In this situation, he now becomes a problem and not part of the solution!

Anger, fear and pain fills one like a full balloon. Unless the anger, fear and pain is dealt with, and some air is release from the balloon, disaster is imminent.

Youngsters are like balloon full of stuff (from friends, home, media)

Symptoms• Mean mugging• Pants sagging• In and out of jail• Set tripping• Travelling in packs• Commandment of violence

Commandment of violence

• That is the thinking that is associated with violent behavior. Much like a computer program that automatically responds when the button is pressed, so too are these commandments activated once the command or word is given, and these commandments override any other thoughts or behavior.

override any other thoughts or behavior.

A student uttered some bad words in Thai…..ends in fighting

Another student just stared to one student…. And he punches him

And what is mostly alarming is a group of students beaten one student because they don’t like him. That’s it. There is no even a stimulus that triggers their anger!

FOUR TREATMENT PROCESS

A. De-programme the thinking (eliminate the commandments of

violence)B. Change the behavior (eliminate the risk factor)C. Deal with emotional residue (anger, fear, and pain)D. Take the prescription (Adopt the new rules for Living)

THE COMMANDMENTS OF VIOLENCE

ELIMINATING THE RISK

LET’S LOOK DEEPER

Destructive language- Calling names, put down people

Names that hurt, harm, and demean. Historically, a destructive name has been given in order to dehumanize and (during wartime) and kill. If you use this word, anger and violence will follow

Later popularized during World War II to describe those of Japanese descent, "Jap" was then commonly used in newspaper headlines to refer to the Japanese and Imperial Japan. "Jap" became a derogatory term during the war, more so than "Nip."[2] Some in the United States Marine Corps tried to combine the word "Japs" with "apes" to create a new description, "Japes", for the Japanese; this neologism never became popular.[2] Veteran and author Paul Fussell explains the usefulness of the word during the war for creating effective propaganda by saying that "Japs" "was a brisk monosyllable handy for slogans like 'Rap the Jap' or 'Let's Blast the Jap Clean Off the Map.'"[2]

In the United States and Canada, the term is now considered derogatory; the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary notes it is "usually disparaging".[5] In theUnited Kingdom it is considered derogatory, and the Oxford dictionary defines it as offensive.[6]

FRIENDSHIP VS. FEARSHIP

Fearship= a relationship based on power, intimidation, and control

=peer pressure =afraid to say NO =based on manipulation

Ex. A high school student

RULES FOR LIVING

Four Treatment Process

1. Educate the child values during your values time.2. Display some poster about character development3. Empower the or the consequences discipline program

The effect of media to violenceBringing the knife at school- watch in the youtube “During last year’s camp, children learned howto make plastic bomb and ping-pong bomb because theyimitated an incident in the news. Students thought thatsuch action would be fun, but innocent people get hurtin the process.”