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DeFazio builds legislation
to stop violence in schools
■ Nine new bills make up a
comprehensive package
designed to make schools safer
By Kendall Larsen
Oregon Daily Emerald
After Kipland P. Kinkel’s infa
mous shooting spree with a .22-cal
iber semiautomatic rifle May 21,
1998, which killed 4 and left 22
wounded in Thurston, the nation’s
attention became focused on end
ing school violence.
Now, with even more students at
tempting to bring firearms to school
and injure their classmates, legisla
tors are struggling to curb youth vi
olence.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.,
introduced legislation Tuesday to
increase funding for intervention
services and limit children’s access
to firearms that they may obtain
due to parental carelessness or gun
shows that do not require back
ground checks.
Kristie Greco, DeFazio’s press
secretary, said the nine bills pro
vide a comprehensive package con
taining a variety of resources that
would be offered to communities to
solve youth violence problems.
“It addresses three things: pre
vention, intervention and it helps
get guns out of the hands of chil
dren,” Greco said.
The legislation would increase
.funding for programs dealing with
learning disabilities, juvenile delin
quency prevention and child abuse
prevention. It also seeks to improve
childcare services and expand the
National Guard’s Youth Challenge
program for high school dropouts.
DeFazio’s legislation would re
quire background checks at gun
shows, as well as provisions by gun
manufacturers for trigger locks on
all new firearms that are purchased.
In a report released last month,
the attorney general’s School/Com
munity Safety Coalition said that
although Oregon’s public schools
are reasonably safe, more must be
done to reduce incidences of bully
ing, intimidation and harassment
between students.
Oregon Attorney General Hardy
Myers said in the report that such
harassing behavior can sometimes
result in acts of violence in school.
The report also includes recom
mendations for new school-wide
curriculum on anger management,
drug and alcohol resistance and
conflict resolution.
Greco said that DeFazio’s legisla
tion addresses the harassment issue
by giving families numerous re
sources to help students build rela
tionship skills both at home and at
school.
Schools in the 4J District and sur
rounding areas are actively in
volved in creating such violence
prevention programs.
John Lehmann, director of Edu
cational Support Services, said that
the district is a recipient of a three
year grant called “Safe Schools,
Healthy Students.”
The grant allows the schools to
have mental health therapists on
staff, and for students to be referred
to professional treatment if needed,
Lehmann said.
The grant has also funded Eu
gene schools to hire unarmed crime
prevention specialists. Lehmann
said their presence in the schools
gives the students a positive place
to go when they have problems or
conflicts.
Another program is Effective Be
havior Support, which runs
throughout the district.
“It helps create an environment
where it is okay to speak up when
you see something happening,”
Lehmann said.
Many of the intervention and
prevention strategies are most effec
tive when dealing with middle
school children, Lehmann said.
Dan Stone, student services coor
dinator at Thurston High School,
said the tragedy there helped raise
awareness concerning school vio
lence.
“One thing we learned from all ol
this is that you can’t take anything
for granted,” Stone said. “You have
to look at every conflict as a poten
tial problem.”
DeFazio’s nine bills will now
move to individual committees for
consideration.
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