Looking at China’s campus security from the perspective of campus safety time

Paper abstract:

We often talk about school shootings and other security incidents in the United States and other Western countries, but often ignore us Domestic campus safety issues. Schools should be a paradise for students to grow up healthily and happily, and a pure place for students to carefully absorb spiritual food. Then, the occurrence of campus tragedies makes each of us start to think about our campus safety issues. This is not only because the country has not done enough in terms of safety measures and safety education, but also because we have ignored campus safety issues...

Keywords: campus safety, campus tragedy, campus safety facilities, campus security Work

In 2010, since March 23, a vicious homicide occurred in the Experimental Primary School in Nanping City, Fujian Province, resulting in 13 students being hacked to death or injured; this vicious crime has been imitated continuously. In April On the 12th, a man in Hepu, Guangxi, stabbed seven people with a kitchen knife in front of Xizhen Primary School, killing two and injuring five; on the afternoon of April 28, a man in Leizhou, Guangdong broke into Leicheng No. 1 Primary School and slashed 16 teachers and students; On the morning of April 29, a murder occurred in a kindergarten in Taixing, Jiangsu, and 32 people were injured; on April 30, a man broke into a primary school in Weifang, Shandong and injured five preschool students with a hammer; on the morning of May 12, a man in Nanzheng, Shaanxi A man broke into a village kindergarten with a kitchen knife, killing 7 children and 2 adults, and injuring 11 children... The successive school tragedies have attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. For a while, people realized that campus security incidents did not occur in the United States. If China does not pay attention to campus safety, campus tragedies will become a long-term cancer that harms society.

Every day we talk about school shootings in the United States and some other Western countries, but we ignore the security of our own homes, which reflects China’s shortcomings in not being good at learning lessons from other countries in terms of school security. Only when a tragedy occurred did they rush to make amends. The lives of those students have been irreparable, and the negative impact of campus attacks on society and abroad cannot be eliminated... Therefore, it is not that our campus does not have safety problems, but that we are not aware of it...

The good news is that the country pays timely attention to campus safety incidents. After the three campus attacks, in order to prevent the recurrence of vicious campus cases, the Ministry of Education promptly issued another emergency notice on May 3, requiring local education departments to coordinate local finances to increase investment, equip primary and secondary schools with full-time security personnel, and install security guards. Monitor alarm equipment and coordinate with the public security department to set up police rooms or security booths in complex security areas around the campus. After the campus attack, the Ministry of Education immediately established a campus security working group to carry out special rectification operations. However, even this cannot eliminate the negative impact of these incidents, as the subsequent consecutive school attacks of the same type also illustrate this point.

The ancients have a saying: be prepared for a rainy day. If the country had implemented corresponding security measures before these incidents occurred, perhaps such tragedies would not have occurred. However, on the basis of taking precautions, I think we should also pay more attention to foreign campus security incidents, pay more attention to campus security measures in some foreign countries, and borrow other people's successful experiences, so that we can take effective measures in a timely manner. To prevent tragedies from happening on our campuses, we must take precautions before they happen. This is what these incidents have inspired us to do.

The occurrence of many campus safety accidents also shows that there are many loopholes in safety management in our schools and kindergartens. As a school, I feel that we must first clarify the importance of protecting the lives and property of school students, and effectively enhance the sense of responsibility and urgency for safety work on campus and surrounding areas. For example, the campus is not open to everyone who wants to enter! The time for students to go to and from school must be determined, and students in lower grades are not allowed to leave school during school hours! Effectively strengthen security work in and around the campus and improve safety precautions. Security guards should not always sit in the security booth, but should patrol everywhere to look for suspicious elements. At the same time, the school must cooperate with relevant departments to equip the school with full-time security personnel and necessary security equipment, and set up safety warning signs and other safety facilities around the school as soon as possible; not to mention that without funds, the safety of students cannot be guaranteed. What education are you talking about? In addition, don’t just pursue high scores, but also provide appropriate safety education to students. Parents and schools should jointly teach children to learn to protect themselves and try to minimize risks.

Only with the strict prevention of schools and parents can we create a relatively safe and stable educational environment, help prevent campus safety accidents and vicious cases, and promote the efficient and orderly operation of school education, teaching and stability maintenance work.

Of course, while all strata of society are strictly doing a good job in campus safety prevention and control, they should vigorously promote the resolution of social conflicts and disputes and innovate social management methods for key monitoring personnel. It should be said that the progress of a society not only relies on technology to change, but also relies on the love and kindness in people's hearts to change reality. Looking back and thinking about it, among the campus security incidents before May Day, except for the massacre at Xizhen Elementary School in Hepu County, Guangxi, where the perpetrator was what the propaganda department called a "mental illness", the perpetrators in the remaining four cases were all due to work reasons. The above issues have been complained to the unit or dealt with by the petition department. The perpetrator in the massacre at Xizhen Elementary School in Hepu County, Guangxi may also be an old petitioner. But why did these weaklings raise their butcher's knives to the defenseless children? Looking into all aspects of these problems, the intensification of social conflicts and disputes, the disadvantaged groups in society sometimes receive unfair treatment, and the depression in their hearts cannot be resolved. These disharmonious factors are also the causes of campus safety accidents. Then the entire society and departments at all levels must face up to contradictions, expose them, resolve them through fair and just channels, and strive to create a harmonious atmosphere for every member of society.

In fact, our country has already taken corresponding measures. In order to further improve school security capabilities, the central government allocated 3.889 billion yuan in special funds in December 2010 to support schools (including private schools) in configuring security, fire prevention and other equipment and facilities, as well as in strengthening and renovating campus walls and gates. This shows the country’s determination to deal with campus safety issues! I hope the country can persevere and make campuses a place where students can grow up safely.

Schools are not only the cradle of learning knowledge, but also a paradise for students to grow up healthily and safely. How to make the campus a peaceful place so that innocent children will no longer be harmed? It is not enough to rely solely on the power of the state. The key is for the government, society, schools and parents to work together to create a safety net.

Reference Xinhuanet's "Inventory of Nine Hot Education Events in 2010"

Pay close attention to safety education and prevent school violence

1. Educate students not to " The word "fear" comes first

Don't be afraid when encountering extortion, extortion or beatings, but dare to fight. Because most of the delinquents intercepted are the same age as the victims, the first interception they make is often a trial. If you are psychologically overwhelmed by the opponent at this time and allow him to bully you, then this first compromise will actually condone and encourage the interceptor, which will bring even worse consequences. Therefore, the first key to effectively preventing school violence is "not to be afraid." "Not being afraid" is the source of strength. When there is a huge disparity in power between yourself and the other party, you must establish the concept of equality in psychology and personality, realize that you have the ability to protect yourself, and get yourself out of trouble through rational and strategic conversations or with the help of the environment; when encountering When the power gap between you and the opponent is not too far, you can consider using warning language to repel the opponent's attempts. But avoid using threatening words to avoid triggering the interceptor's rebellious psychology.

2. Timely reporting

We must also realize that extortion and extortion are often closely related to violence. We encourage students to fight against it on the premise of "not being afraid", but not It means that a moment of bravery will cause unnecessary harm. Therefore, students should be educated to promptly report to the school and parents when encountering extortion or extortion. The performance after the first interception is very important. No matter whether the other party succeeds in his or her goal, if you are just afraid and swallow your anger, or don't want to publicize it, it will inadvertently increase the other party's arrogance and make the other party think that you are weak and can be bullied, which will often lead to new incidents of extortion, extortion, and beatings. occur. Therefore, after encountering blackmail, blackmail and other incidents, the school and the other party's parents must be contacted promptly to punish the interceptor. Timely reporting and timely handling can effectively prevent similar incidents from happening again.

3. Improve interpersonal relationships and strengthen self-protection awareness

This is also a way to prevent school violence. A student with extensive and good interpersonal relationships is less likely to become the target of extortion, extortion and beatings.

4. Schools collaborate with families to protect themselves

Families should provide more guidance to their children on prevention issues, and require children to tell their parents about the situation in a timely manner and obtain help from their parents; in addition, , Families should also contact the school more often to provide feedback on their children's situation. For those students who are often late for class or come home late, they should especially do a good job in contacting the home and school, keep track of the students' whereabouts, and nip problems in the bud. At the same time, schools should also provide psychological guidance to students, eliminate students' fear, provide psychological counseling to students with mild violent tendencies, resolve conflicts, and harmonize their interpersonal relationships.

5. Choose Friends Carefully

Educate students on making friends, encourage them to make more friends with good moral character, make more "beneficial friends" and avoid "harmful friends". Children who have been subjected to violence should be comforted more, but it is not advisable to encourage or incite them to seek revenge, so as not to cause greater disputes.

6. Transforming students with academic difficulties

For schools, schools should actively do a good job in transforming students with academic difficulties, seize the characteristics of students with great plasticity, and actively discover Use love to influence the "sparkling points" of students with learning difficulties, do their ideological work patiently and meticulously, make friends with students with learning difficulties sincerely, and learn more about their thoughts; at the same time, we must strengthen legal education to let students understand What to do and what not to do. In response to problems in schools, ask police station staff to teach students legal classes