Comment 6888

By Around Again (anonymous) | Posted June 08, 2007 at 13:22:12

Sure, life imitates art which imitates life, around and around we go. Communication is culture and it isn't all good news. To blame the media is simply to say there's a human appetite for violence, individually and collectively. It's nice to think we could simply break this cycle and it would all go away, but authority had more media control before technology opened up communications and that simply meant shit still happened, but less of it was reported.

This is not to say nothing can be done about violence in the schools. I'm less expert than the author, but I think Craig Hermanson's item in this issue of RTH (regarding large, suburban sprawl schools) points to one probable cause: schools so big the staff does not know what's going on in distant corners of their buildings. School authorities become remote and students are less likely to confide in them. In super-sized schools it becomes increasingly difficult to forge a truly interactive link between Home and School.

Now, talk about funding excellence in education really means driving up scores on standardized tests at the lowest possible cost per square foot. The internet becomes a replacement, rather than an enhancement of face to face communications. When technologies such as video cameras replace teachers as the eyes and ears in their buildings, authorities can only react, rather than act to prevent violence in schools.

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