We all see and hear of it daily in the news: increasing acts of violence in our schools and our workplaces, so much so that it is hard to keep track of them all.
Disputes over such trivial items as a parking space or a place in line can turn violent, sometimes deadly. These violent incidents range from bullying in school to disruptions at athletic events and unruly behavior on airplanes to disgruntled employees returning to the workplace bearing a weapon.
In a recent case in Utica, a man is accused of threatening to blow up the Oneida County Office Building because of his dissatisfaction with services offered by the county — just another example of people, young and old, unable to control their violent impulses when confronted with problems and difficulties of everyday life.
Unfortunately, there is no single remedy for this problem that seems to be expanding exponentially in our culture.
But we can at least begin to address the problem in our schools, and so this is what I propose: Why not make as part of the curriculum, as early as elementary school and ongoing through high school, mandatory classes in conflict resolution and anger management?
Students could be taught strategies to solve problems without resorting to violence. Workshops conducted by trained professional counselors and mediators who could employ role playing and other techniques designed to defuse situations that could otherwise potentially turn deadly.
Students, on their way to becoming adults, could learn how life’s everyday problems can be dealt with peacefully, without resorting to the sickening violence which, more than ever, seems to be permeating our society as a whole.
— Michael Landau, Rome
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