America's Educators Aren't Equipped to Handle School Violence

The Columbine Shooting may have help several schools be more aware of what's going on with it's students (read "Columbine Massacre May Have Saved Our Schools"), but the New York Times said that teachers lack the skills to handle the emotional needs of students and there's a giganitic shortage of school counselors (according to federal data retrieved by the Times there were 478 students to every school counselor in 2002).

Horrible acts of violence in our nation's school, including the massacre at Red Lake High School (read "School Violence Timeline" to refresh your memory) may have occurred because of the feeble training that most of America's teachers recieve before facing classrooms filled with children. [Note: The Times said that in Minnesota, where the Red Lake High School shootings took place, had almost 800 students for every counselor]