The world seems to be blind to the major issue with teen violence and yet recognize every other kind of violence that is out there. Why are we the teen minority so neglected when it comes to our violent actions?
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Teen Violence and Teen Suicide22% Voted for by Wretched Heart, AthenaWisdom.
For the past couple of months I have been working hard on correspondence through the Independent Learning Centre (ilc.org). I have been working very hard to complete my high school education because I do not attend a regular school. Currently, I am working on my second unit, in fact, this letter is the last assignment in the unit and I am on to the next. Through one point in the unit, I had been reading about teen violence and I had to write a report on current teen violence. I had interviewed and spoke with my grandmother, my aunt and my younger cousin. They gave me very interesting insight on the major issue of today’s society. Now, I am writing this letter to you about this particular topic because I believe this is becoming an epidemic and needs to be realized by all Canadians, if not the world.
Teen violence and teen suicide has become society’s next Aids outbreak, so to speak. Soon, it will become the next Holocaust. It is a major issue growing even as I speak of it. Teens go to schools with guns, they shoot their own friends and teachers and even their own family members. Teens beat each other and go to gang wars over drugs and basically also over their own reputation because they think it’s cool. Suicide also is a problem in the teen society. They get bullied, judged, teased in any way and it’s the end of the world in their eyes. Even the teens who are left alone at home, day after day, are the ones to turn insane now a days either commit suicide or commit a crime. Over seas you have foreign teens blowing their selves up because of their beliefs. The mind has become this war zone for teens, it’s like a person under peer pressure and suddenly they just snap.
But no one is taking action and really creating helpful organizations other than a telephone number you can call if you need help. What about those who are afraid to reach out or are out of reach in their mind? I’m not saying they should all be lined up the streets and put under psychological evaluation. Though, at least take notice in their actions and in their behaviours. It’s not right to let them go on unnoticed. It’s committing a crime against them to let them go on living in their own little box. They aren’t fish in your aquarium to be watched from a far and fed once a day. We are humans too! We live, we breathe, we speak and we have the same needs and wants everyone else does. I believe our nation needs to take notice or they might as well tell us to put a gun to our heads each time one of us comes of age. I am almost nineteen. I have been through the suicidal thing, I have witnessed the violence. Why can’t the rest of the world?
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Teenagers Have Always Been Lost22% Voted for by Frail Braid, nays-lil-boat.
The teen years have always been the years to take action. Whether through sword play in past centuries or getting a job at a local restaurant this century. In the teen years, each are stuffed full of information and almost no time to manage their thoughts and/or be involved with their community and family. Too much time is spent with friends and not in the family unit, therefore morals that the family might want influenced on their teen(s) is wasted away to the opposition of the nearer-aged peers. I don't think this has to be a newsflash, but more families are breaking apart. Is it because of the teenagers? No. Does it affect them? Yes. Have my parents been through a divorce? No. Nevertheless, that causes teens to grow closer to their peers and farther from their parents because the parents are more involved with their own problems and not of that of their child. To the HEART of this matter, teen violence is VERY noticed by society - but they are too overwhelmed to do anything about it. Just as the environmental problems seem so overwhelming, so does that of teenage violence. How many teenagers can you count in this world? Don't try. How many hormones and conflicted emotions can you count beyond that? Even more dangerous. ANY TEEN can go insane. ANY PERSON can go insane. But teens have always been lost and instead of finding a place of belonging in a family or with GOOD peers, they're finding themselves in the conflictions of their emotions - one of which, unfortunately, is uncontrollable rage.
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Someting To Be Said About Small Towns22% Voted for by Energizer Bunny, AthenaWisdom.
That is why I feel so lucky to live in a small southern town. Sure, there are lots of things that we do not have like big cities do but there are also things like high crime rates and etc that we do not have either. -
Unnoticed?Okay first of all teen violence does not go unnoticed. I should know ive done a few "violent" things in my day and let me be the first to say that..." Society does notice...!" I see it more as if society fails to handle the situation with as much concern as it needs. Teen violence, or violence for that matter is a plague upon the earth such as locust in the bible. If God gave human the mind to handle each situation with no more than what any, one person, can handle, Why does society fail to deal with the situation...It Can't Be Done...Its called Inevitability...22% Voted for by Subway, pnktrky.
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What is teen violence?I'm not in my teens anymore. Can someone explain what teen violence is. Self-inficted harm or hurting other people? If hurting other people, whom?Voted for by ExpensiveThinker.
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My solution
I to have witnessed violence in my school. Whenever I see it I try to stop it, but I can't be everywhere of course. So I think we need some kind of security personel in each school. By doing this I think we could decrease the number of violent situations and suicides. And I know that they would be very angry about invasion of privacy, but when things get this bad it has to be done.Please register or login to comment! It's totally free