Violence Awareness Week Promotes Safety to Students

Time and again, stories about the horrifying results of cyber bullying surface. As a result of this, and in order to prevent such incidents from occurring with their students, the faculty of Booton High School have decided to promote safety and how students can apply safety measures to their life during Violence Awareness Week.

Explaining the situation to the students’ guardians and parents, the principal sent out an e-blast, stating that the high school prided itself on being a safe learning environment for its students. And because of the awareness of cyber bullying, and the inappropriate employment of the Internet and cell phones, the school would be dedicating Violence Awareness Week to a series of parent workshops which highlights the dangers and risks involved with cyber bullying and what can be done to prevent it.

Complying with the New Jersey Department of Education guidelines, Boonton High School will focus this year’s program on teen fighting, bullying behavior, Internet safety, cyber bullying and dating violence.

Two assemblies on drug prevention and cyber bullying will be undertaken by the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office, while an officer from the Boonton Police Department will attend the school in order to discuss the issue of safety to the students.

Last year, the school held a simulated car crash assembly to its students, which proved to be a huge success. Because of this, the high school is hoping that the awareness of cyber bullying and the other issues focused on will also prove to be a success with the students and parents.

Booton High School’s aim is to continually create programs that aid at developing an awareness to the possible dangers that high school students face. With a positive and safe learning school environment, it is hoped that the students will be encouraged to make the right choices that create positive peer relations.

Of course, one way for students to maintain their safety is by owning pepper spray; however, this only applies to those aged 18 and over. But it is a device worth considering. Quick and effective to employ it will certainly do the job at preventing an assailant from attacking you during a date, or journey home from school.

Not only that, but it is safe to employ, and gives you plenty of time to make your escape while your attacker deals with the intense burning that your pepper spray will be causing.