Safe schooling

       Recently there was an accident at Dunbarton High School in pickering, Ontario. A 14 year old female student who was carrying 2 knives injured six students and three staff members.  The girl's friend thought even though she was bullied that she would never hurt herself or anyone in that matter.

       Accidents like these makes me think about how we should be trying to avoid things like these in schools and communities. We should be controlling the violence, we should be providing more attention to the children and making sure they are receiving the right amount of help. We shouldn't allow students to bully each other and bring each other down mentally wise. We should help all students individually and as groups to make sure that they aren't being abused by whomever. Teachers should be paying more attention towards how the students behave in class, how the students behave show a lot about how they feel.  Tricia Goodchild the female student reported that she was being bullied and the school administrators did not do anything to help Tricia in anyway. In this case I think that the school administrators should actually care about the students well beings.

      At Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School the services that are available to help the students if they were being bullied is the guidance counsellor. The guidance counsellor is there to make you feel comfortable and safe. The guidance counsellor is there to help the students when they are in a difficult place. TA's are also there to help the student when they are being bullied, they are there to support the student, to guide them. The teachers are there to help you with your performance in school and how you use your knowledge. The teachers will help you in whatever situation you are in. All these services (people) are there to help the students be comfortable with themselves and to help them when they are being bullied. Bullying in Mary Ward is unacceptable act which they take strongly.

      New service that can be provided in schools. An example would be an online help center, this will help student or anyone in that matter. This application will allow students to talk to people about their situation anonymously, if the student doesn't feel comfortable talking face to face. I think that the online help center would be very helpful in students lives. There could be one online help center  for each district with highly qualified people able to deal with problems.

    I think that its not just specific schools that need to be readjusted but the school district making it easier for the students to feel safe as if no one in the school id going to hurt them in any way.