Theft, Gangs, Fights in School: How Your Child Can Prevent Trouble
Help your child recognize and deal with crime related problems at school by offering these pointers for avoiding trouble and minimizing the dangers of getting ripped off:
1. Having many friends is a means of protection. Encourage your child to join in several extracurricular activities to increase the number of students he or she knows. Being a loner makes the child more susceptible to trouble from a gang.
2. Valuables should never be left in desks or lockers that are not secure. When changing clothes in a locker room, your child should keep her purse or wallet locked inside the locker, in her pocket or within sight close by.
3. If your child sees a fight or mugging he should not get involved. Instead he should get help from a teacher as quickly as possible.
4. Children should seek advice from more experienced students. They are likely to know whether a certain situation, such as staying late for a basketball game, is safe.
5. Don't let your child wear status symbol clothing to school. He or she should wear the same kind of clothes everyone else does. You want your child to be a zebra and a herd of zebras, not a gazelle. It is important for a child to blend in with other children and not to stand out.
If parents think their child is in real danger at school, they should talk to the principal with the understanding that their complaint remain anonymous. If this is difficult within the school, then an outside meeting with the principal or other school representative ought to be arranged.
In any case, if you are considering an approach of this kind, it may be best for several parents to join together. In doing so, you will be able to eliminate the suspicion that the problem is a personal attack or an isolated incident. In the case of a racially mixed school, such presentation should be made jointly by parents from different groups.
Sources:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.dolan/how_to_prevent_school_violence
http://reason.org/news/show/1007114.html
http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/school_violence.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Action-to-Prevent-School-Violence
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