Political officials and several different administrations and programs are not facing a new advisory while dealing with school violence. Problems with violence in schools have been reported back as far as the 1950's. John William's wrote an article about the increase in serious and not so serious antisocial behavior. Back in the 50's to 70's schools and kids were not classified as "violent" like they are now, instead they were considered to be delinquent. Later studies concluded with similar results with the only difference being that the number of acts were increasing and also getting worse, meaning that they were more violent and antisocial.
             The number of violent acts have been increasing and getting worse for the past decades for several reasons. In present society students are less willing to let an argument go and more likely to hold a grudge against a person until they gain revenge. A fistfight seems prehistoric when compared to what happens in fights now. Instead of punching each other and leaving it at that, if they are losing they will most likely use and weapon they can get their hands on, as in a knife or gun. If they don't have a weapon on them they will go get one looking to settle the score with the other kid. "Rubel has correspondingly noted that fights between students have changed from words and fists to aggravated assault with lethal weapons." (Page 5, Goldstein)
             Weapons today are also more accessible them they used to be. In one survey I read that over fifty percent of the students in an inner New York city school said that they could easily obtain a firearm by the end of the school day, if they needed to and had sufficient funds to do so.
             The amount of violence in schools has gained so much attention that it has reached the concerns of congress and President Bill Clinton. In 1994 President Clinton, with congress, have passed the educate America Act wh...