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Our specific topic is: =School Violence in Developed Countries=

Reason for Choice
We chose this topic to work on because as a group we feel that there has been an increase in violence throughout the world and much of this violence is then transferred to schools causing school shootings and violence particularly in the United States.

Organization
The organization we chose to focus on is called NSSSS which stand for Nation School Safety and Security Services. There are numerous ways that this organization is trying to help school violence and one of those ways is to help faculty write crisis action plans to help them during an emergency. They help the faculty during school professional development days by giving half and full day sessions to them. We are interested by their program because they go beyond then just giving speeches to the student body and faculty but they instead help them create these plans. They also teach the kids what to do if a situation should arise. We are modeling our action plan after them because our group is trying to raise awareness of the situation and teach people about what they can do about it.

__FACT SHEET__
Sources: "School Violence Statistics ." __Securtiy World__. Serious. 30 Jan 2008 <[|http://www.securityworld.com/ia-428-school-violence-statistics.aspx>.] "Statistics ." National Center for Children Exposed to Violence. 30 Jan 2008 <[|http://www.securityworld.com/ia-428-school-violence-statistics.aspx>.]
 * Twenty-one percent of middle school/junior high schools reported these incidents for an estimated 7,576 incidents.
 * Student bullying is one of the most frequently reported discipline problems at school: 26% of elementary schools, 43% of middle schools, and 25% of high schools reported problems with bullying in 1999-2000.
 * Students aged twelve through eighteen were victims of more than 2.7 million total crimes at school. (Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2000, U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice, 2000)
 * Nationwide, 15% of high school students had participated in a physical fight in 1998. (Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999)
 * 57% of expulsions for bringing firearms to school involved high school students, 33% involved junior/middle school students, and 10% involved elementary school students. (Gun-Free Schools Act Report: School Year 1998-1999, U.S. Department of Education, October 2002)
 * In the past twelve months, fifteen percent of students in grades nine through twelve reported being in a physical fight on school property. (Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2000, U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice, 2000)
 * Younger students, ages twelve through fourteen, were more likely than older students, ages fifteen through eighteen, to be victims of crime at school. (2000 Annual Report on School Safety, Department of Education and Department of Justice, 2000)
 * On average, each year there are 133,700 violent crimes against teachers at school and 217,400 thefts from teachers at school, reported by teachers from both public and private schools. (2000 Annual Report on School Safety, Department of Education and Department of Justice, 2000)
 * A total of 3,523 students were expelled from school for bringing a firearm to school according to the most recent Gun-Free Schools Act Report. (Report on State Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act: School Year 1998-1999, U.S. Department of Education, 2000)
 * Fifty-seven percent of expulsions for bringing firearms to school involved high school students, thirty-three percent involved junior/middle school students, and ten percent involved elementary school students. (Gun-Free Schools Act Report: 1998-2000, U.S. Department of Education, 2000)
 * Seven percent of schools or an estimated 6,451 schools reported at least one incident of physical attack or fight with a weapon to law enforcement personnel during a recent school year. (A National Study of School Environment and Problem Behavior: The National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools, Gottfredson Associates, Inc., 2000)
 * Only nine percent of violent crimes against teenagers occurring in school were reported to the police compared with thirty-seven percent of such crimes occurring on the streets. (A National Study of School Environment and Problem Behavior: The National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools, Gottfredson Associates, Inc., 2000)
 * Go to this [|site] to find statistics on school violence