What are we teaching the children?

What are we teaching our children to accept in our schools?
Recently I had a discussion with a retired school teacher.  We were discussing school violence and the lack of awareness to the causes, escalation of behaviors, and pure ignorance of the rights of children who are not violent.  The retired teacher was often involved in learning situations which dictated in class support.
As a former teacher and not a fan of inclusion as the only option for class placement, the newly retired teacher's testimony of eye witness accounts of violent behavior by a grade school child reminded me of days gone past.
The teacher described ongoing scenes in which one violent prone child would demonstrate behaviors which put the classmates and staff in the direct line of the violent behavior.  The classroom teacher, described as low key, allowed the violent child to throw desks.  The other children would be moved to the side of the classroom until the episode was over.  The violent child would then be escorted from the class for counseling, as the children in the classroom would be instructed to pick up the desks and their materials.  They would then be expected to resume their work.
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Stop the Marches and Stay Home

A 10 year old child, walking home from an Atlantic City school, was hit in the foot by a ricocheted bullet the other day. Some cities hold marches to stop the violence. These marches stopped working years ago because we stopped parenting years ago. The Million Mom March held after Columbine High School massacre was not backed up by substance.

The march was against gun violence via gun ownership. Gun ownership does not translate into violence....but a violent person with access to guns does. A troubled heart with access to anything can turn any tool into a weapon. Hands beat, rape, strangle, and ultimately pull the trigger of a gun...should we cut off hands for preventive measures? Just as removing the body part of a rapist does not solve the problem of rape, new gun laws will not solve the problems we face with gun violence.