Quote

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.