School Violence Quotes

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

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

The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.

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.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

How come when I was a kid, I couldn't be picked on bullies like that?

The last thing I wanted to do was blow up another school.

What kind of development is it when the people lead shorter lives than before? They catch HIV/AIDS. Our children are beaten in school and won't go. Some become prostitutes. They are not allowed to hunt. They fight because they are bored and get drunk. They are starting to commit suicide. We never saw that before. Is this "development

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

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.

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

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.

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

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.

The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color.

I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count them as I was running.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.