Janet Reno Quotes

All children should have a chance to speak up for what matters to them, like school violence, and they should be encouraged to take action to end violence against children.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

What we have to do is stop children from killing children.

I personally would prefer to send my child to a school where the teachers are armed … and prepared.

It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.

Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.

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

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

All of our students should feel safe and supported when they go to school.

Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.