School violence .. a global crisis?

The independent daily al-Masry al-Youm reported today that a wave of violence in different schools left one 17-year old student dead in Cairo after a teacher pushed him off a 4th floor balcony.
Another student was stabbed by another in a fight in 6th october city, and a
third was abducted and brutally stabbed by two brothers in Ismailiya.
Both stabbing victims are in the hospital in critical condition.

Is it just a coinicidence that these happened in one day? What is happening to students and the teachers? Is it a cultural problem,social or economic?

Many people blame everything on poverty. They say because they are poor, they stea,because they are poor they are desperate and they tend to do anything, even kill,to get some money.

Others blame the bad state of the education system, both the text books and curricula problems as well we the system within schools and qualifications of teachers.


Others blame the political state of the country, and the lack of flow of information, the state of human rights in Egypt, as well as the Emergency law imposed on the country for decades.

It remind me when my school was closed for three days after a fight between school boys fromour schools with others from neighbouring schools led to the death of one of them, and severe injuries of others. It was painful to think of the parents of this guy, did they except that their son would die in a schoolfight? Did they know the kind of weapons he carried in his bag instead of the books. Was he too spoiled because his parents were rich, or was he angry because his family was poor and tey could not afford the things he wanted?

No one had an answer, no one knew why he died, some said over a girl, some said drugs. No one wanted to come out and talk openly about it and discuss it with the rest of the students in the school complex. It was forbidden to ask why this happened, or even wonder was it the family's fault, or the school's or ours. While some were asking silently, others did not even care to feel sorry for how things ended for his family and his friends, they were just happy to enjoy the few days off school.

And that was the most painful part.