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A 5 page essay that analyzes Richard Van Acker's 1993 article "Dealing with conflict and aggression in the classroom: What skills do teachers need?" Although the article was written 18 years ago, the writer argues that the strategies that Van Acker discusses about how educators should handle conflict remain relevant and useful. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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by juveniles, which were evident in the early 1990s. For example, Van Acker points out that the level of violent crime committed by individuals under age 18 reached a level
that was three times higher than it was just 30 years previously. Having established that there was a heightened sense of juveniles presenting a danger to public safety, Van Acker
then turns to the subject of violence in the schools. Here again, Van Acker paints a picture of violence being rampant in the nations public schools, which he then
relates to a description of how school principals and educators have reacted to the climate of violence in terms of their reactions to student behavior, which indicates that these education
professionals reacted to violence with violence in terms of corporal punishment. This leads into Van Ackers argument that the problem of violence in the schools demands that educators address the
issues that generate violence in a proactive, positive manner that addresses these causes while also fulfilling their duty to educate the perpetrators. While the high crime that Van Acker refers
to fell sharply from its peak in 1991 throughout the 1990s (Levitt 163), this authors insightful analysis remains highly relevant to contemporary conditions. Van Acker points out that public
schools have increasingly been expected to assume the tasks of socialization and acculturation in regards to the countrys schoolchildren. This task is further complicated by dramatic shifts that include increasing
cultural diversity, as well as a demographic shift in terms of economic background, as in many public schools, all of the student body qualify for the free lunch program. He
goes on to describe how an increasing number of students are exposed to "family violence, substance abuse, child abuse, and child neglect" (Van Acker 24). As a consequence, rather than
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