Research Paper on:
Safety in Schools

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have had problems in school, community or home in the past. Take, for instance, the case of Nate Brazill, a 13-year old seventh grader (Hewitt, Rozsa and Sider, 2000). Nate  was an honor student and liked by his peers Hewitt, Rozsa and Sider, 2000). He had never been in any serious trouble (Hewitt, Rozsa and Sider, 2000). Yet, on the  last day of school, just ten minutes before school was to be dismissed, Nate entered a classroom, demanded to see his girlfriend and then shot one of the schools most  popular teachers (Hewitt, Rozsa and Sider, 2000). Nate had been sent home earlier in the day for throwing water balloons (Hewitt, Rozsa and Sider, 2000). The police tried to reconstruct  the days and weeks before the incident. His stepfather was known to be abusive at times to his mother. His mother had gone through a radical mastectomy several months before.  It was learned that a few days before the shooting, Nate stole his grandfathers gun. After he was dismissed from school for tossing water balloons, he walked the few miles  home, retrieved the gun and returned to the school (Hewitt, Rozsa and Sider, 2000). Why Nate shot a teacher he reportedly liked remains a mystery. Professor Ewing has studied juvenile  murders for years and has written several books about this topic (Perritano and Keedle, 1997). He says that even after his vast study, he is no closer to understanding why  children kill (Perritano and Keedle, 1997). Ewing said: "I can say that, in general, kids who commit these types of crimes are not psychotic, are not severely mentally ill --  although theres always something seriously psychologically wrong with them. Theyre often kids who come from abusive, dysfunctional families, kids who have some kind of organic brain dysfunction, who may have