Curbing Rising Violence and Vandalism in our Schools

By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, OCT, Brookview Middle School, Toronto-Canada

The recent news reports from Toronto and Ghana about rising incidents of violence and student vandalism in our schools are very disturbing. In Toronto, the school year has been marred with many occurrences of student violence which have brought concern to teachers in the city’s high schools where most of the violence have been reported. According to the teachers’ federations in Ontario, “Although the 2022-2023 school year has been less disrupted than the last few years, ETFO members are reporting that violence in schools has returned to, or is exceeding, prepandemic levels.”

There have been many stabbing and shooting incidents in some Secondary Schools as well as Middle Schools in the metropolitan area of Toronto the latest being shooting at the Weston Collegiate.

Also, in Ghana, we hear of vandalism