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Article: Gov't: Over 60 percent of kids exposed to violence :http://tinyurl.com/y8boxt7

Random thoughts:

What is violence as defined by government?

Is it reasonable to expect a child to grow up strong if they are not exposed to some level of violence?

If a child never gets involved in fights, how will children be taught what lines not to cross or how to reach an understanding.

What kind of person will a child become if they are never taught a code of honor, which yes, may include the right and the wrong way to handle confrontation.

Is the problem really violence, or is the problem the kind of anti-emotional, almost sociopath type of environment that schools create for too many children. Is the problem that children are exposed to violence or that they are separated from loving parents too young and are not being bonded with people in a loving environment.

Our growing prison population can almost be directly traced to growth of daycare and the lowering of school age and parents being over worked. But heaven forbid we should talk about that because that might make some parents feel guilty and actually question the sanity of turning children over to strangers at such young ages.

Even a large part of law abiding citizens in our society are broken, damaged, in some way. There are all sorts of causes for this, but part of it can be placed at the doorsteps of the school system. Anyone who would argue that schools are a healthy environment for young children were not raised in a healthy environment to be able to know the difference.

Instead of talking about longer school days or more days in schools we need to start talking about reducing the amount of time children are forced to spend in an unloving, non-nurturing environment.

For young adults who are not college material, it is important those teenagers be moved out of the school enviroment and into the work enviroment to become productive members of society and to be able to establish some level of self-respect much sooner instead of later. With children not having some level of self-respect, without them living by some code of honor, without them having some ability to have compassion for a perceived enemy, society ends up with the kind of shit that happened in Chicago.