As teachers, parents and students prepare and begin this new school year, hopefully fears of school violence such as bullying, slapping, punching, weapons use and rape will not be their primary concern worry . Finally, what is school violence? As defined in the Oxford Dictionary, school violence is a subset of student or teacher violence, physical force exercised for the purpose of violating, harming or abusing the act or an instance of violent action or behavior at school, the abuse or damage to meaning, content or intent, vehemence of feeling or expression. What is sad is that violence in schools must be a real concern. The fact is; violence of one kind or another is a part of many schools today. Luckily, this usually involves a small group of people fighting each other. School violence is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's society. People are talking about what needs to be done to prevent this from becoming an everyday occurrence, looking at metal detectors for schools, profiling who would be most likely to commit such crimes and changing the way violence is viewed by society as a whole . There is a need for change within society itself, but also in suburban homes and especially at school. Parents have never really been encouraged to teach their children ways of non-violent confrontation. It is necessary to create a push for parents to be involved in their children's lives and know what is happening to their son or daughter. This is not only a way to help prevent the violence that plagues schools today, but also to help stop violence from occurring. Parents are the first line of defense to help end school violence. This writing will be pasted on the harmful effects of v...... middle of paper ......lves that should be considered by addressing important issues instead of slipping so easily into issues that are not worth it and undemanding not only for their lives but also for those of others in the affected community. So, from what we see in the discussions and the damage caused in most communities, there is the cruelty of students coming from school violence, so to make this place better, teach students to control their pride and have more concern for what our life is taking. through us, aiming for the best and highest results, preventing violence from affecting our schools and our society. http://law.jrank.org/pages/12101/School-Violence-Effects-school-violence. htmlhttp://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootinghttp://whyfiles.org/065school_violence/http://712educators.about.com/od/schoolviolence/School_Violence.htm